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Dark Secrets of the Heart: William Kennedy’s Irish Chronicles

By Patrick Farrelly

October 1992

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The Irish of Albany, New York, have proved to be rich and fertile literary material for native son William Kennedy as is evident in Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed, and Quinn's Book. Now a fifth novel, Very Old Bones joins the distinguished Albany Cycle. Patrick Farrelly talked to the Pulitizer Prize-winning author at his home. In his white clapboard house in … [Read more...] about Dark Secrets of the Heart: William Kennedy’s Irish Chronicles

Hibernia | Dancing at Lughnasa

By Irish America Staff

November 1991

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After triumphs in Dublin and London, Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa comes to Broadway. When the Roger Smith Hotel in Manhattan welcomed Brian Friel, producer Noel Pearson and the cast, talk centered on the power of this story of five sisters in rural Donegal. Supported only by the teacher's salary of the eldest, Kate (Rosaleen Lenihan), the women, their retired priest … [Read more...] about Hibernia | Dancing at Lughnasa

Senator Joe Biden

By Niall O'Dowd
April 1987

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An 1987 interview with the then U.S. Senator from Delaware, now presidential hopeful Joe Biden gave his first ever interview to an Irish publication in April, 1987 when he talked to Niall O'Dowd and revealed, for the first time in print, his passion for his Irish heritage, the story of his extraordinary Irish Catholic family, and his ambition, even back in 1987, to run for … [Read more...] about Senator Joe Biden