1991
Nolan Ryan: A Man for All Seasons
By Mary Pat Kelly October 1991
So there we were in the lower depths of Yankee Stadium, following the dark empty corridor we hoped would lead to the visiting team's dressing room and baseball great, Nolan Ryan. Truly, though, this dark basement did not evoke the mythic view of the sport. No Boys of Summer or Field of Dreams down here but another side of baseball, the wearying travel, the games lost in the … [Read more...] about Nolan Ryan: A Man for All Seasons
First Word: A Seminal Month for Irish America
This month marks a seminal event in the history of the Irish in America. Shortly after 12.01 on October 14 at a post office box in Washington, D.C., the first lrish applications for the new Morrison visas will be received and a 25-year nightmare will end. Back in 1965 when the last immigration reform act was passed, the Irish, like people from other Western European … [Read more...] about First Word: A Seminal Month for Irish America
Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life
By Sean Cronin September 1991
When Wolfe Tone examined the situation of his country in the 1790s, he made what for him was "a great discovery, though I might have found it in Swift and Molyneux, that the influence of England was the radical vice of our government, and consequently that Ireland would never be either free, prosperous, or happy until she was independent, and that independence was unattainable … [Read more...] about Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life
Nothing’s Missing from The Missing Reel
By Earle Hitchner September 1991
Every so often in Irish traditional music, a marvelous album comes along without much advance fanfare. The Missing Reel by fiddler Séamus McGuire and flutist John Lee, with superb support from guitarist Arty McGlynn and pianist Fiona McGuire (Séamus' sister), is just such an album. Released at the end of 1990, it has sustained its popularity among traditional music lovers in … [Read more...] about Nothing’s Missing from The Missing Reel