THE issue of undocumented Irish people living in the US was among the topics discussed when Taoiseach Simon Harris met with President Joe Biden on October 10. The pair met in the White House after Mr Harris made a special trip to Washington at the invitation of the President to mark 100 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations. They also discussed issues relating … [Read more...] about Undocumented Irish among topics discussed as Taoiseach and President Joe Biden meet
Campaign for Justice 50 Years On
By Brian Dooley
IA Newsletter, October 5, 2024
IA Newsletter, October 5, 2024
Guildford Pub Bombs Continue to Haunt Victims and the British Criminal Justice System 50 years later. Exactly 50 years ago, on Saturday night October 5, 1974, IRA bombs exploded in two pubs in the Surrey town of Guildford, south of London. But despite a series of trials, appeals, an official inquiry and a coroners inquest, the full story of the attacks is still not … [Read more...] about Campaign for Justice 50 Years On
Gene Kelly: Entertainer Extraordinaire
By Michael Scanlon
Eugene Curran Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer who sought to create a new form of American dance accessible to the general public, which he called "dance for the common man." December, 1990: It was made in Hollywood on the back lot of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer smack-dab in the middle of the century – 1952 to be exact. You've all seen it … [Read more...] about Gene Kelly: Entertainer Extraordinaire
LOOK WHO’S TALKING:
An Interview With Phil Donahue
An Interview With Phil Donahue
By Michael Scanlon
October 1990: IN THE beginning, there was Phil. The others followed and they continue to follow.
!t was in Dayton, Ohio in 1967 and a new form of television was about to be born. Up to that time, television only showed the back of the audience's heads, and the extent of the people’s participation on a show was to react to a big sign off-camera which said: Applaud!
Enter … [Read more...] about
An Interview With Phil Donahue
Saint-Gauden’s Celtic Vision
By Joe Zentner
IA Newsletter, August 3, 2024
IA Newsletter, August 3, 2024
The most important American sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century was born in Ireland. If there was such a thing as an American Renaissance, Augustus Saint-Gaudens embodied it in sculpture. To Saint-Gaudens, an artist is an interpreter of beauty in the world. A work of art is the artist's vision of a subject, colored by the light of imagination and expressed in … [Read more...] about Saint-Gauden’s Celtic Vision