"We are the music makers / And we are the dreamers of dreams, / Wandering by lone sea-breakers, / And sitting by desolate streams; / World-losers and world-forsakers, / On whom the pale moon gleams: / Yet we are the movers and shakers / Of the world for ever, it seems. – “The Music Makers” by Arthur O’Shaughnessy
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The 100 Most Powerful Irish Americans in in Corporate America (Moore – Welch)
By Darina Molloy, Sarah Buscher, and Ann Scott
November / December 1998
As we enter the new millennium, the Irish in the U.S. have reached a level of success that the immigrants of the last and early part of this century could have not possibly imagined. Our annual list of the "Best and the Brightest" offers more than a few surprises, such as Harvard being the number one graduate school, and the unusually large percentage of Irish-born. … [Read more...] about The 100 Most Powerful Irish Americans in in Corporate America (Moore – Welch)
Business 100 | The Heavy Metal Kid
By Irish America Staff October 1992
Bill Connell of Connell Limited Partnership A seminal moment in Paul Tierney's life occurred one evening in 1964 when he saw a light burning in the living quarters of Father Ted Hesburgh, then president of Notre Dame and a priest noted for accessibility to his students. Tierney called up Hesburgh, was invited over, and poured out his heart. Though a philosophy major, he had … [Read more...] about Business 100 | The Heavy Metal Kid
Business 100 | Creating Irish – U.S. Business Links
By Turlough McConnell October 1992
ICCUSA (Ireland Chamber of Commerce in the United States) is one extraordinary, international commerce machine with a mission. Turlough McConnell reports. Patrick J. Keogh is searching for the right words. "We don't like to be pigeonholed. We're not exactly a traditional chamber of com-merce." He pauses. "Nor strictly an organization for social good, really, " Keogh muses. … [Read more...] about Business 100 | Creating Irish – U.S. Business Links
Business 100 | Telecom Ireland
By Martin Crowley October 1992
The invisible thicket of telecommunication innovation has grown denser in the last decade with all the major European countries vying to attract American manufacturing and service companies doing business in Europe. Few succeed without the lure of a proven state-of-the-art telephone network and not many have been as committed as Telecom Ireland to the task of improving … [Read more...] about Business 100 | Telecom Ireland