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By Kathleen Kellogg September 1992

Angel of the Camps

By Kathleen Kellogg

September 1992

May 16, 2025 by Leave a Comment

In 1867, the two young Cashman sisters sailed from Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, to America and took the newly completed transcontinental railroad to San Francisco. With the shortage of women on the frontier, these two beautiful Irish girls were expected to be the center of masculine attention, and that marriage and family would soon follow. One of the sisters soon fell in … [Read more...] about Angel of the Camps

Morrison Visas: Round Two

By Brian Rohan

September 1992

May 16, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Hard to believe that it's already a year since the days of Morrison Madness, when tens of thousands of Irish (as well as people of other nationalities) mailed over 14 million applications for the chance of winning 40,000 green cards in a Green Card lottery. The lottery, aimed largely at redressing the shortcomings of previous U.S. immigration regulations, was a major victory … [Read more...] about Morrison Visas: Round Two

Time and Tide

By Patsy Murphy

September 1992

May 16, 2025 by Leave a Comment

A novel by Edna O'Brien One warm summer evening last year, I picked up a first edition of The Country Girl from the bookshelf in a house where I was staying and I did not leave my place by the window until I had read it from start to finish. To read the story of Kate and Baba after 30 years was like drinking clear spring water from the wells that abound in Miss O'Brien's native … [Read more...] about Time and Tide

Patrick Ronayne Cleburne: The Stonewall Jackson of the West

May 16, 2025 by Leave a Comment

History has largely forgotten Patrick Ronayne Cleburne. Perhaps this is not surprising. Like many Irishmen throughout history, he fought on the losing side of a foreign war and, as we know, history is written by the victors. However, since Americans are presently given to Civil War retrospectives, it is fitting that we remember one of the Confederacy's greatest military … [Read more...] about Patrick Ronayne Cleburne: The Stonewall Jackson of the West

Sons & Mothers

By Jim Dwyer

May/June 1996

May 9, 2025 by Leave a Comment

It's been 15 years since the Hunger Strikes in Ireland left ten men dead and changed the course of Northern Irish politics. Now a new movie gives voice to the suffering of the mothers whose sons died on hunger strike. Jim Dwyer talks to filmmaker Terry George about his latest work, Some Mother's Son. It's been 15 years since the Hunger Strikes in Ireland left ten men dead and … [Read more...] about Sons & Mothers

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Following his win in the California and South Dakota primaries, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy made a speech addressing his campaign supporters at the Ambassador Hotel in LA, California. In an effort to make it to a press conference on time, Kennedy decided to pass through the kitchen, where he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. He sustained three gun shot wounds and was immediately rushed to The Good Samaritan Hospital. Despite surgery, Kennedy died the next morning on June 6, 1968.

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