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Whistling Straits to Host Ryder Cup

By Patricia Harty ,Editor-in-Chief

Summer 2021

September 3, 2021 by 1 Comment

The 17th green on The Straits, a par 3 There's a beautiful links golf course in Wisconsin called Whistling Straits, and it looks like it could be in Ireland. There’s a beautiful links golf course in Wisconsin called Whistling Straits, and it looks like it could be in Ireland. The 43rd Ryder Cup  matches will be held on September 24 to 26, 2021, on the links-style course … [Read more...] about Whistling Straits to Host Ryder Cup

A Way of Healing

By Honora Harty, Contributor
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by 1 Comment

El Camino De Santiago. Photo: Honora Harty.

In memory of her brother David, who died of of MS related causes, Honora Harty flew from San Francisco to Dublin to join a group of MS Ireland walkers embarking on the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James), the ancient pilgrimage route. The walkers picked up the trail in Estella in northeast Spain and walked to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia on the west … [Read more...] about A Way of Healing

The Greens of Ireland

By Frank Shouldice, Contributor
February / March 2003

February 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

The American love of golf has created a new form of business in Ireland – golf tourism. ℘℘℘ A mean Atlantic southwesterly howls up the sand dunes, blasting a wintry chill across the grassy headland. Out on the exposed hills a slow procession catches my eye. Leaning into the gale is a hardy knot of Arctic adventurers, pressing on and pausing, driving forward for all their worth. … [Read more...] about The Greens of Ireland

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Today in History

March 23, 1847

On this day in 1847, the Choctaw Native American tribe collected money to help starving victims of the Irish potato famine. Several years before, in 1831, President Andrew Jackson seized Choctaw territory in what is now southeastern Mississippi and parts of Alabama, forcing the Choctaw to travel five hundred miles along the “Trail of Tears” to reserved Indian Territory in Oklahoma. The Choctaw people sympathized with Ireland’s forced submission to Britain, and with the starvation and disease that plagued them. A group of Choctaws gathered in Scullyville, Oklahoma and raised $170, which they then forwarded to a U.S. famine relief organization. Though U.S. contribution in aid to Ireland totaled in the millions, the Choctaw donation was by far the most generous.

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