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Spiral, Spiral Night & Other Paintings

By Robert F. Manning

March/April 1994

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Robert Manning lives in Vermont. His many trips to Ireland resulted in an exhibit of his paintings: "Stone Walls of Ireland", which ran at the Arts Work Gallery in Hartford, Connecticut. Proleek Dolmen "This spectacular dolmen just out of Dundalk sits in a potato field behind a hotel now and it looks like some giant mushroom. The stones on top are there because of a … [Read more...] about Spiral, Spiral Night & Other Paintings

Plunging Into Irish Studies

By Peter Monaghan

March/April 1994

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 Seamus Deane, A Renowned Literary Scholar, Fills A Void At Notre Dame  The University of Notre Dame, the home of the Fighting Irish, is the sentimental alma mater of many more actual and would-be Irish-Americans than ever have studied here.  Yet until now, the most identifiably Catholic institution in the country--one where 14 of 16 presidents have been priests of Irish … [Read more...] about Plunging Into Irish Studies

An American in Ireland: From Madison Avenue to Bruckless, Donegal 

By Kathleen Tierney O'Connell

January / February 1994

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Kathleen Tierney O'Connell, a third-generation Irish American and former editor at Vogue magazine, left the bright lights of Madison Avenue to be with the love of her life, Packie McFadden, a farmer in County Donegal. As a third generation American with Irish forebears on both sides of the family tree, I was always curious about Ireland and even flirted briefly with the idea … [Read more...] about An American in Ireland: From Madison Avenue to Bruckless, Donegal 

Denis & The Kids

Story and photographs by Oistin MacBride

January / February 1995

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It's long, long way from St. Patrick's School on the edge of Belfast's New Lodge Road to the sky scrapers of New York, never mind the plains of the Midwest and the fantasy of Disneyland, but that is precisely the journey made by some 900 children from the North of Ireland on a six week trip of a lifetime under the auspices of Project Children. In the playground of St. … [Read more...] about Denis & The Kids

Mission Dolores

By Jim Sullivan

January / February 1994

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A Californian Mission's Irish Past Mission Dolores, the oldest building in San Francisco, was the sixth of twenty-one missions, built under the direction of Father Junipero Serra and the Franciscan fathers, that would eventually stretch "about a hard day's drive [ride] from one to the next," from the Mexican border to an area north of San Francisco now known as Sonoma … [Read more...] about Mission Dolores