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Thomas Cahill: An Irish Gift to the Human Race

By Tom Deignan

December 21, 2022 by Leave a Comment

We mourn a writer who shed a light on Irish monks who kept the fires of Christian learning alight during the Dark Ages, and in doing so, helped banish some of the stereotypes leveled at our race. Best-selling author Thomas Cahill – who died on October 18 at the age of 82 – once described a bitter irony of history in this very magazine. “Ireland had been a place of fabulous … [Read more...] about Thomas Cahill: An Irish Gift to the Human Race

Grave Markers Installed for Two Fenian Rebels: Michael Harrington and Thomas Hassett

December 20, 2022 by Leave a Comment

On Saturday, October 15, at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York, headstones were placed on the graves of Thomas Hassett and Michael Harrington to the tune of a bagpiper from the County Cork Association of NY Pipers. The pair, who had been buried in unmarked graves, were both from Cork. They, along with 61 other Fenians, including John Boyle O’Reilly, had been rounded up in … [Read more...] about Grave Markers Installed for Two Fenian Rebels: Michael Harrington and Thomas Hassett

Calling All Law Students With an Interest in Human Rights

By Emily Moriarty

December 20, 2022 by Leave a Comment

The Brehon Law Society of New York is inviting law students with an interest in human rights and activism, to apply for a summer internship with a law firm in Belfast. The society, composed of lawyers, judges, and other law-related personnel, takes its name from the ancient Irish law system. The Brehons were judges, close in importance to chieftains. Founded in New York in … [Read more...] about Calling All Law Students With an Interest in Human Rights

Hibernia News: Bones Found in Montreal Linked to Famine Victims

By Emily Moriarty

December 16, 2022 by Leave a Comment

“The first things they found were buttons, and then they found pieces of artifacts like clay pipes which they figured were from the people who were doing the burials. Then they found the bones – four children, three teenagers, and seven adults,” recalls Victor Boyle. The bones were unearthed in 2019, when the Canadian railway system began digging about the Black Stone Monument … [Read more...] about Hibernia News: Bones Found in Montreal Linked to Famine Victims

Hibernia: Writers on Writers

December 16, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Kirwan Honored It was a big night for a true Irish renaissance man back in October when the Irish American Writers & Artists (IAW&A) group gathered at Rosie O’Grady’s in Manhattan to celebrate Larry Kirwan – author, musician, activist, and more – as the winner of this year’s Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award. “From the Bells of Hell bar to Broadway is no easy … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Writers on Writers

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March 31, 1855

Charlotte Brontë, author of “Jane Eyre,” died on this day in 1885. She was born in 1816 to the Reverend Patrick Brontë (formerly Brunty) and Maria Branwell. Maria died of cancer while her six children were still very young. Charlotte’s father sent her away to school, where conditions were so terrible that Charlotte’s two older sisters died of tuberculosis. Her experiences at this school later served as the inspiration for the fictional Lowood School in “Jane Eyre.” Charlotte’s remaining siblings died in quick succession not long after this, her most famous novel, was published. She reluctantly married the Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854, and soon became pregnant. She died of pneumonia while pregnant, just thirty-nine years old.

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