Irish America
Irish America
A Message From An Taoiseach The Budweiser Irish Derby is a great sporting occasion, the centerpiece of the Irish horse-racing year and a wonderful advertisement for Irish racing and the Irish bloodstock industry. It attracts thousands of spectators to the ancient Curragh of Kildare, a place where horses have been raced since pre-historic times; and has a television audience … [Read more...] about The Irish Derby
Writer Mary Pat Kelly and photographer Martin Sheerin visited the Ulster-American Folk Park at Camp Hill, County Tyrone, in the North of Ireland which houses the ancestral home of the Mellon family. "At the end of the day" can be an ominous phrase in Northern parlance, used by politicians and media commentators to sum up the difficulties of ending "the ancient quarrel" that … [Read more...] about Irish Homecoming Festival: A Time That Was
John Gotti blazed onto the criminal scene in a 1986 bloodbath outside a steakhouse in Manhattan, the result of which left him the boss of the most notorious mafia family in the United States. Ever since, he's won folk-hero status as the "Teflon Don," operating freely in the spotlight of the otherwise shadowy underworld, brazenly daring the government to stop him. Many charges … [Read more...] about The Guys Who Nailed Gotti
There are far worse offenses for a Bishop than falling in love and having a baby as Galway's Eamonn Casey did. Far less forgivable is the appropriation of diocesan funds for child support payments. Whatever the ultimate truth of the matter, Casey's ordeal cast Ireland into the world headlines in a manner unseen in recent times. That, combined with the recent splurge of … [Read more...] about First Word: The Bishops at the Bat
The Brady family name derives from the Gaelic McBradaigh which was originally anglicized as McBrady, but the "Mc" is very seldom used in modern times. The vast majority of this power clan of Breffny, now the County of Cavan, come from Ulster. A smaller group of Bradys (formally O'Brady) come from County Clare. The Bradys were a gentler sort and their prominent kinsmen have … [Read more...] about Roots: The Brady Family
