Irish America

Irish America

1991

Art Review: An Alternative Reality

By Frances Haines

July/August 1991

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"Patrick Graham is a powerful and poetic artist. This man is real. He's the artist to watch in the 1990's.” So says Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, now editor for Connoisseur. Graham's impact on Irish art is without precedent, and his work is increasingly arousing a dramatic response in the U.S. In 1986 he exhibited with four Irish … [Read more...] about Art Review: An Alternative Reality

Soccer – A No Score in the U.S.A.

By Michael Scanlon

July/August 1991

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Why don't Americans like soccer? Well, not exactly all Americans – just most of them. Ask your average baseball fan where the next World Cup is being held.. Most likely he'll give you a big shrug. Explain to him that three-quarters of the globe goes into a frothy fever over the World Cup, that it draws a crowd of 2.6 million people and is broadcast to 170 countries and he'll … [Read more...] about Soccer – A No Score in the U.S.A.

Top of the Best Sellers List

By Mary Pat Kelly

July/August 1991

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Mary Higgins Clark Publishing's favorite adjective is "best selling." But two authors on June's New York Times best sellers list had more in common than the success of their books. Both Mary Higgins Clark whose suspense novel Loves Music, Loves to Dance entered the list at number one and Anna Quindlen, whose coming of age story Object Lessons has been climbing steadily, … [Read more...] about Top of the Best Sellers List

First Word: Triple Spirals at Least

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
July/August 1991

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The ancient Irish gave tribute to the unique nature of woman in that the symbol they gave their goddesses was that of a Triple Spiral, which can still be found on pre-Christian monuments, such as Newgrange in County Louth. The Triple Spiral represented the cycle of birth, life, and death; the Maiden, Mother, and Crone - the never-ending cycle of infinitude. As the Song of … [Read more...] about First Word: Triple Spirals at Least

Blazes Boylan

Compiled by Brian Rohan

July/August 1991

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Irish Man in Space At 8:24 a.m. on Wednesday, June 5, Bryan Daniel O'Connor, became the first Irish citizen to ever travel in outer space. It was a smooth takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Colonel O'Connor, who was the commander of the 8-member crew on board, had been in space before, as pilot of the Atlantis … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan