Irish America
Irish America
Report on the Second Annual W.B. Yeats International Theatre Festival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, August 2-25, 1990. The Abbey Theatre's second Yeats International Theatre Festival, "Masks of Transformation," was named one of the artistic highlights of 1990 by the Sunday Tribune of Dublin, Ireland. The Festival featured three powerful Yeats plays, Cathleen ni Houlihan, The … [Read more...] about Masks of Transformation
The Declaration of Independence was written in the hand of Irish-born Charles Thomson. First read to the people by John Nixon, another native of Ireland. Printed by John Dunlap also born in Ireland. Signed by at least three people of Irish birth: James Smith, George Taylor and Matthew Thornton. And at least five other signers had Irish-born parents or grandparents: Thomas … [Read more...] about Hibernia | The Irish Contribution to America’s Independence
I am in the Mayo town of Ballaghaderreen on a June day, l am here because this town has more pubs, it is said, than any other town in the West of Ireland. For a drinking population of about seven or eight hundred people there are 42 pubs and one hotel, which has a bar, and two off-licences where you can buy takeaway booze. It is the Court day in the town and one of the cases … [Read more...] about The Other Side | Pub Crawling in the West
Newspaper editors teil you that the public never want to read the good news, but for once I think the success story that the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) has become is well worth recounting. The United States spends just one-quarter of one percent of its massive foreign aid appropriations on Ireland, according to the latest figures from Washington. That worked out to … [Read more...] about First Word: Good News from Ireland
What exactly is it about singing sensation Daniel O'Donnell that makes people feel so passionately about him? Daniel's fans—and there are millions of them, all over the world—would absolutely live and die for him. They flock to his concerts in record numbers, and make his album and video sales reach the same lofty heights as pop icons Madonna and New Kids on the … [Read more...] about The Irish in Country | Donegal’s Danny Boy
