Irish America
Irish America
America is discovering the joys of Irish poetry thanks to Dillon Johnston. Set leisurely atop undulating manicured lawns are the neat brick buildings and magnolia trees of Wake Forest University, a private college in Winston-Salem, N.C., Baptist-founded, home of the Demon Deacons. Well-dressed and tanned students stroll with their bookbags on the plush grass of the main … [Read more...] about Caretaker of The Poets
By the mid 1960s more than three hundred Irish Traveler families had settled on a fifty-acre parcel of land that they called Murphy Village. They named the site for Father Joseph Murphy, a parish priest and advocate who started the settlement for Travelers and guided it for twenty years before his transfer in 1968. What makes Murphy Village unique is that it's a continent away … [Read more...] about Irish Travelers of Aiken County
Michael Scanlon talks to the team behind The Glucksman Ireland House –New York University's elegant building on Fifth Avenue. For over a year now, the very best of Ireland's writers, poets, journalists, playwrights, historians, and filmmakers, have come together in a beautiful brownstone in Manhattan, close to New York University's Campus and Washington Square Park, to take … [Read more...] about Ireland House
Out of Ireland, a documentary film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner, had its first public showing at the New York Lincoln Center Irish Film Festival in June, and will air on PBS television stations sometime this fall or next spring. Using as its primary source the remarkable memoirs and letters written by and to Irish immigrants in America, from Kerby Miller's … [Read more...] about Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America
After 20 years, Paul Hill wins the fight to clear his name. Close to four million Americans have seen In the Name of the Father, the movie which chronicles the events of 20 years ago in which Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson were convicted of the pub bombings in Guildford and Woolwich that killed seven people. The only evidence against them was … [Read more...] about In The Name of Justice
