Irish America
Irish America
He was only four years old — flying across the Atlantic to his first acting job in Vienna, Austria. We would come to know him well, first as O.P. on Mayberry R.F.D. and The Andy Griffith Show, and then as a high school senior in American Graffiti and Happy Days, holding onto the 50s in a world transformed. As a grown-up director, he mastered the craft that always fascinated … [Read more...] about Far and Away
Irish America caught up with five of the writers who were here on a tour sponsored by the Irish Tourist Board and St. Martin's Press: Maeve Binchy, her cousin Dan Binchy, Mary Maher, Alice Taylor, and Shane Connaughton. Mary Pat Kelly accompanied Maeve Binchy, Dan Binchy, and Mary Maher to their radio interview on Joe Hurley's weekly program on WBAI, New York. She later talked … [Read more...] about The Write Stuff
On reading the correspondence of central early twentieth-century literary figures such as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce, one finds the name of John Quinn appearing as a kind of oblique leitmotif, and his function seems to be as some sort of agent or patron or perhaps both. This shadowiness is at least in part his own creation, for Quinn … [Read more...] about The Mighty Quinn
"The United States of America is very much alive to the threat from the European Community" declares Jim Dewhurst in his book Your Business 1992. The EC is the largest trading partner for the U.S., taking around 25 percent of total U.S. exports and providing just under 20 percent of U.S. imports. Politicians in all 12 member states have been busy extolling the merits of … [Read more...] about Investing in Ireland: The Pros & Cons of a Single Europe
Danny Treanor looks and acts like all the other Treanors now. But once he was the best boy soprano in Ireland. You would not think it to look at him now. But once an angel lived in his throat, for such a short time, the lifespan of a lark maybe, and then the angel went away and the following evening Danny's mother went away too, in the winter darkness, taking the brown leather … [Read more...] about A Mother’s Heartbreak
