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A Link With The Past

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2002

December 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

How many hours did you spend learning your catechism? Could you still answer your questions and recite your prayers in Irish? For those of you who could use a review, or who just miss An Teagasc criostai, the 'old' Catechism, is available once again. This reprint of the 1954 edition contains 443 questions and answers and the usual prayers, all in updated spelling. At $12 your … [Read more...] about A Link With The Past

For the Little Ones

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2002

December 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

What's Wrong with Timmy.

Renowned broadcast journalist, Maria Shriver is know to millions of people who can't even stay up to watch the late news; it's past their bedtime. The best-selling author of What's Heaven, Shriver has written a new book that tackles another difficult issue for kids, people with disabilities. It's a topic Shriver has become familiar with through her family's founding and support … [Read more...] about For the Little Ones

The Last Word

By Pat Doherty, Contributor
February / March 2001

December 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

The last time it happened...The Irish were to blame. ℘℘℘ The election results are in. The presidential candidate of the incumbent Democratic party has won the popular vote but lost the election because one big state has narrowly swung to the Republicans. Commentators blame the Democratic loss, in part, on defections among a key ethnic group many of whom had been led to … [Read more...] about The Last Word

Top Hat!

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2002

December 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Hat designer, Marie Galvin.

Hat designer and IA covergirl Marie Galvin joined the 7th Anniversary Gen Art's Fresh Faces in Fashion show presented by POWERade in New York and Los Angeles in October (host committee included the top designers Vera Wang and Diane Von Furstenberg). The show featured 12 of the best new fashion designers in the world. Earlier in the month Marie brought her GALVIN-ized head-ware … [Read more...] about Top Hat!

Cleary Makes Health Clearer

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2002

December 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Siobhan Cleary.

Award-winning host for Ireland's best Anchor of a News Magazine Show, Siobhan Cleary is bringing Health Diary to U.S. audiences this fall. Airing on the New York area's channel WLIW, Health Diary, motivates people to get in shape with tips, exercises and discussions. It's "Get In Shape" segment tracks four non-exercisers in their struggle to get fit. The Gracie Award-winner … [Read more...] about Cleary Makes Health Clearer

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The first Home Rule Bill was introduced in British Parliament on this day in 1886. The Irish Parliamentary Party and Irish advocates such as Charles Stewart Parnell had been campaigning for Irish home rule since the 1870s. The bill, which proposed the formation of a devolved governing body for Ireland, was introduced to Parliament by the liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. After two months of debate and discussion, the bill was defeated, 341 – 311. It would be the first of four proposed Home Rule Bills, the last of which was finally passed in 1920.

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