Irish America
Irish America
Concern Worldwide are opening a school in Wil Wal, north Mogadishu, Somalia. It will soon have over 900 pupils. But first the playground has to be cleared of the remains of the dead. It is nauseating to discover that the little broken pieces of roofing asbestos jutting out of the ground are "gravestones," and that the pervasive smell is from corpses rotting inches below the … [Read more...] about Somalia: Ireland’s Concern
"Gunmen Kill Irish Aid Worker in Somalia." The story made the headlines on Monday February 22, 1993. The worker was Valerie Place, 23, of the Irish charity Concern. For months the media had been bringing us the latest on famine-ravaged, war-torn Somalia, and it seemed that in almost every story an Irish volunteer was quoted. Now one had been killed. Relief workers have no … [Read more...] about “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor…”
Names such as Kelly, Murphy, O'Brien and Ryan are distinctively Irish and are widely known to be so. However, there are many names which are Irish but this fact is far from obvious. Names such as Holland, King, Waters, Rabbitte, Woods, Smith, Kidney, Bird, Salmon, Moore, Traynor, Moss, Fox and Dean and many others can be of Irish origin due to some strange evolutions of … [Read more...] about Roots: That’s Not an Irish Name!
The Comstock Lode provided over half the silver ever mined in the United States but the Irishmen who discovered it weren't quite as lucky as one might think. By Jim Sullivan. Between 1850 and 1860 the numbers of Irish arriving on the shores of America rose from 206,041 to an incredible 1,611,304! Packed into the slums of New York City's East Side and Boston's North End, many … [Read more...] about (Un)lucky Strike
Twenty-five years ago the hopes of a nation were shattered as Robert Kennedy lay dying, his final words "Is everyone else all right?" reflecting the person that he was. On June 6 a "Mass for Courage and Reconciliation" was held to mark his anniversary. Patricia Harty reports. The crowd of some 18,000 who had gathered at Arlington Cemetery fell silent as Ethel Kennedy and her … [Read more...] about Remembering Bobby
