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Irish Homecoming Festival: A Time That Was

By Mary Pat Kelly

June 1992

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Writer Mary Pat Kelly and photographer Martin Sheerin visited the Ulster-American Folk Park at Camp Hill, County Tyrone, in the North of Ireland which houses the ancestral home of the Mellon family. "At the end of the day" can be an ominous phrase in Northern parlance, used by politicians and media commentators to sum up the difficulties of ending "the ancient quarrel" that … [Read more...] about Irish Homecoming Festival: A Time That Was

The Mighty Quinn

By Richard and Janis Londraville

May 1992

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On reading the correspondence of central early twentieth-century literary figures such as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce, one finds the name of John Quinn appearing as a kind of oblique leitmotif, and his function seems to be as some sort of agent or patron or perhaps both. This shadowiness is at least in part his own creation, for Quinn … [Read more...] about The Mighty Quinn

Investing in Ireland: The Pros & Cons of a Single Europe

By James Morrisey

May 1992

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"The United States of America is very much alive to the threat from the European Community" declares Jim Dewhurst in his book Your Business 1992. The EC is the largest trading partner for the U.S., taking around 25 percent of total U.S. exports and providing just under 20 percent of U.S. imports. Politicians in all 12 member states have been busy extolling the merits of … [Read more...] about Investing in Ireland: The Pros & Cons of a Single Europe

The Geese Who Flew South

By Michael P. Cahill

January 1989

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Though it is often overlooked, Louisiana played an early and important role in the story of the Irish in America. Michael P. Cahill reviews the Irish – as well as the Anglo-Irish, Scotch-Irish, Franco-Irish and Spanish-Irish – influences in the Mississippi Delta. It is no secret that the Irish have played a major part in the history of the United States. It is, however, often … [Read more...] about The Geese Who Flew South

“Happy Days” For O’Casey and Beckett

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
November 1987

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When Shivaun O'Casey first met Irish-born Nobel Literature Prize winner Samuel Beckett, she was a shy young girl of 16 studying acting in London. In the 32 years that have followed that meeting, she has kept in close contact with Beckett, now recognized as one of the leading 20th century playwrights, whose dark visions of life inspired a revolutionary stage movement called … [Read more...] about “Happy Days” For O’Casey and Beckett