Irish America
Irish America
This Business 100 issue is the largest we have published in the history of our magazine, clear evidence – if any was needed — of the strength and vitality of the Irish American business community. We are proud to bring you this issue, and wish to give heartfelt thanks to our major sponsors, the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland, Waterford Crystal, the Irish … [Read more...] about Business 100 1991
In May of this year, a group of of some 75 photographers from around the world traveled to Ireland. They focused their lenses on the people of Ireland, spanning the island from the Glens of Antrim to the Ring of Kerry, shooting more than 5,000 rolls of film-180,000 photographs in the course of a single 24-hour time period. Of the thousands of photographs taken on that day, 225 … [Read more...] about A Day in the Life of Ireland
So there we were in the lower depths of Yankee Stadium, following the dark empty corridor we hoped would lead to the visiting team's dressing room and baseball great, Nolan Ryan. Truly, though, this dark basement did not evoke the mythic view of the sport. No Boys of Summer or Field of Dreams down here but another side of baseball, the wearying travel, the games lost in the … [Read more...] about Nolan Ryan: A Man for All Seasons
This month marks a seminal event in the history of the Irish in America. Shortly after 12.01 on October 14 at a post office box in Washington, D.C., the first lrish applications for the new Morrison visas will be received and a 25-year nightmare will end. Back in 1965 when the last immigration reform act was passed, the Irish, like people from other Western European … [Read more...] about First Word: A Seminal Month for Irish America
When Wolfe Tone examined the situation of his country in the 1790s, he made what for him was "a great discovery, though I might have found it in Swift and Molyneux, that the influence of England was the radical vice of our government, and consequently that Ireland would never be either free, prosperous, or happy until she was independent, and that independence was unattainable … [Read more...] about Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life
