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Window on the Past:
Wall Street’s Forgotten Financial News Genius

By Paul M. McCarthy
October 6, 2017

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Etched against the burgeoning lower Manhattan skyline, a lone figure rowed his tiny skiff toward the white-capped inner port. This was no fitness buff; his dark suit and bowler hat rose and dipped rhythmically from one ship to another, visits to each brief and businesslike. The year was 1868. The solitary oarsman was John J. Kiernan, an innovative pioneer in the field of … [Read more...] about Window on the Past:
Wall Street’s Forgotten Financial News Genius

Yeats Family Pieces Auctioned Off

By Olivia O'Mahony
September 29, 2017

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Over 220 artifacts belonging to the family of William Butler Yeats were auctioned off in a Sotheby’s auction entitled “Yeats: the Family Collection” in London on September 27. The collection comprised paintings, drawings, letters, furniture, silver, and other personal items that once belonged to Yeats, his father, and his siblings. The auction realized a total of €2.2m … [Read more...] about Yeats Family Pieces Auctioned Off

Announcing the 20th Anniversary Wall Street 50

By Irish America Staff
September 27, 2017

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Irish America magazine will celebrate its 20th anniversary Irish America Wall Street 50 Awards Dinner on October 11th at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan. Tim Ryan, Senior Partner and U.S. Chairman of PwC, will deliver the keynote address at the event. Ryan, who assumed his current role last July, has quickly become one of the most significant executives for his unparalleled … [Read more...] about Announcing the 20th Anniversary Wall Street 50

Weekly Comment:
Punk and the Peace Process

By Olivia O'Mahony
September 22, 2017

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In 1978, Northern Irish punk rock band The Undertones released their debut single, “Teenage Kicks.” The track opened with the punchy and iconic lyric, “Are teenage dreams so hard to beat?” The answer was a resounding yes, and the song became an instant anthem for the followers of Northern Ireland’s punk movement. With a new exhibition at the American Irish Historical Society in … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Punk and the Peace Process

Weekly Comment:
Four Lost Irish Plays Debut in New York

By Eric Uhlfelder
September 8, 2017

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A strange cloud hangs high above the stage, set against an otherwise glorious sky in the Samuel Beckett Theatre in New York. It seems out of place, except when one realizes its poetically shadowing the lives of many of the evening’s characters in four one-act plays, all written by a once rising star of the Irish Theater. For those familiar with Teresa Deevy’s work, that … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Four Lost Irish Plays Debut in New York