Irish America
Irish America
Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen who penned such wonderful novels as The Death of the Heart and Demon Lover, and helped establish the 'Big House' in Irish literature, failed in her own efforts to save Bowen's Court, the family home in County Cork. The N73 between Mallow and Mitchelstown in County Cork is a sharply twisting two-lane road, shadowed by high hedges and unforgiving … [Read more...] about Death of the Heart
Once again, Northern Ireland dominates headlines, both in Ireland and internationally. The Manchester IRA bomb was a huge blow for the peace process and set back support in the U.S. for Sinn Féin. Once again, Gerry Adams has to answer whether or not he can bring about a ceasefire. But the IRA is not the only problem. Day after day, it seems it is one step forward and two steps … [Read more...] about The Politics of Peace
Virtuoso New York fiddler Eileen Ivers is thrilling audiences everywhere with her wild Celtic rhythms in Riverdance, the sensational Irish dance revue which is taking the world by storm. ONE of the most electric moments in Riverdance occurs when the slight figure of virtuoso fiddler Eileen Ivers bounds into the spotlight and effortlessly teases up the tempo until the entire … [Read more...] about Bringing It All Back Home
The Irish in Canada have won a major victory over the Canadian Government on how the national historic site at Grosse Ile should be developed. The small island in the St. Lawrence River, 48 kilometers downstream from Quebec City, once served as a quarantine station, and is the burial site of thousands of Irish immigrants who died of cholera in 1832, and of typhus, ship fever, … [Read more...] about Canada Recognizes Irish Famine Memorial
When William of Albany, as he came to be known, left County Cavan in 1789 in search of the American dream, he could never fathom that his grandsons would become America's foremost novelist and philosopher respectively. But aside from Henry and William James, this extraordinary clan had in its midst an equal and perhaps a tad superior (as claimed by a majority of Jamesian … [Read more...] about Remembering Alice James
