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By Irish America StaffJuly 3, 2014

Third Annual Irish America Day, New Ross: Ireland’s Official July 4th Celebrations

By Irish America Staff
July 3, 2014

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The third annual Irish America Day has an action packed program of events for Ireland’s official Fourth of July celebrations on Friday in New Ross, Co. Wexford. Irish America day promises to be an exciting weekend for all the family to celebrate the U.S holiday in style with events continuing throughout the weekend. Keeping in line with U.S. traditions whereby the Declaration … [Read more...] about Third Annual Irish America Day, New Ross: Ireland’s Official July 4th Celebrations

Dermot Healy 1947-2014

By Matthew Skwiat, Editorial Assistant
July 2, 2014.

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Dermot Healy, one of Ireland’s great contemporary men of letters, passed away June 29. Healy’s sudden death at the early age of 66 came as a shock to many, but his artistic output in those years will live on for many years to come. Healy was a poet, playwright, memoirist and fiction writer whose work was regarded for its originality, depth of feeling, and psychological insight. … [Read more...] about Dermot Healy 1947-2014

On The Set with
Norah O’Donnell

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief

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Norah O’Donnell is the co-host of CBS This Morning, guest host on Face the Nation, and a 60 Minutes correspondent. This seasoned broadcaster has earned the moniker “tough but fair.” ℘℘℘ Of course it helps Norah O’Donnell’s popularity that the camera loves her – she is tall and slim with perfect features, thick auburn hair, and big blue eyes. She’s also, as I found out when I … [Read more...] about On The Set with
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The First Word: A Visit to Irish America

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
June / July 2014

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I've come to think of Irish America as an actual place unto itself, sort of like in an Irish fairytale where someone is magically transported to another world. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, you get to take a trip to that place without ever leaving American soil. That’s how it was for me the week after Easter. It began when I took two friends, visitors from Northern Ireland, … [Read more...] about The First Word: A Visit to Irish America

Does Paul Ryan Have Irish Amnesia?

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On the eve of St. Patrick’s Day last March, Timothy Egan’s column “Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia” appeared in The New York Times. Egan cited Sir Charles Trevelyan, the British assistant secretary to the Treasury, who had ordered relief works to be shut down during the height of the Famine. “Dependence on charity,” Trevelyan declared, “is not to be made an agreeable mode of life.”  … [Read more...] about Does Paul Ryan Have Irish Amnesia?