Irish America
Irish America
Matthew Carney was one of the most famous foreign-born runners of the bulls of Pamplona. Keith Kelly, on the trail of the elusive legend, discovers the spirit of bravado and romance that drew the Irish-American to Spain. Under the carnival lights at the feast of San Fermin in northern Spain I first heard of Matt Carney, the California-born Irishman who ran with the bulls every … [Read more...] about Running with the Bulls
For the last 150 years poor mother Ireland has been casting out her young to the four corners of the world. The country, it could be said, is no more than a spawning pool, a place to be born but not a place to live a life through or die in. Over two million left between 1845 and 1855 leaving behind the Famine in which one million died. During the nineteenth and into the … [Read more...] about An American Wake
The Irishman That Designed the White House If Irish visitors strolling along Washington, D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue sometimes imagine that there is a familiar look about the White House, small wonder. It was modeled on Leinster House in Dublin by the Irish-born architect, James Hoban. When it was decided that a special official residence for the President of the United States … [Read more...] about Hibernia
