Irish America

Irish America

By Irish America Staff October 1992

Business 100 | The Merchant Prince

By Irish America Staff

October 1992

by Leave a Comment

Don Brennan, Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Don Brennan could find himself cast as villain or savior over the next few years as the fate of Waterford Crystal, one of the best known brand names in the world, is decided. Brennan likes the odds, though a halo would ill-fit the direct, tough-talking managing director of Morgan Stanley. When Brennan and Heinz chief executive … [Read more...] about Business 100 | The Merchant Prince

Business 100 | A Personal Investment Service

By Irish America Staff

October 1992

by Leave a Comment

Some people just have a knack for growing a business. Denis Kelleher is one of those people. Twice he has created businesses to capitalize on the American business climate, and twice he has been successful. Educated at St. Brendan's College, Killarney, and also at St. John's University, New York, Kelleher (profiled in last year's Business 100) has had more than 30 years … [Read more...] about Business 100 | A Personal Investment Service

An American Wake

Compiled by Irish America Staff

October 1992

by Leave a Comment

For the last 150 years poor mother Ireland has been casting out her young to the four corners of the world. The country, it could be said, is no more than a spawning pool, a place to be born but not a place to live a life through or die in. Over two million left between 1845 and 1855 leaving behind the Famine in which one million died. During the nineteenth and into the … [Read more...] about An American Wake

Dark Secrets of the Heart: William Kennedy’s Irish Chronicles

By Patrick Farrelly

October 1992

by Leave a Comment

The Irish of Albany, New York, have proved to be rich and fertile literary material for native son William Kennedy as is evident in Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed, and Quinn's Book. Now a fifth novel, Very Old Bones joins the distinguished Albany Cycle. Patrick Farrelly talked to the Pulitizer Prize-winning author at his home. In his white clapboard house in … [Read more...] about Dark Secrets of the Heart: William Kennedy’s Irish Chronicles

The Rose of Tralee

Photos and story by Oistin MacBride

October 1992

by Leave a Comment

For one week in August the small town of Tralee in the wilds of The Kingdom of Kerry is host to a multi-million dollar International Festival that attracts tens of thousands of expatriate visitors from every corner of the world. They are all drawn by an inalienable, sometimes extremely tenuous, link to the land of their ancestors. Pride, emotionalism and a sense of belonging … [Read more...] about The Rose of Tralee