Irish America
Irish America
In January of 1988, at 11 p.m., less than 20 hours before the Golden State Warriors professional basketball team were to play a home game, their flashy 6'7" forward, Chris Mullin, could most likely be found sitting in a local tavern gulping down one beer after another. Yes, he was fully aware that he had a game to play. Yes, he was fully aware that he should be sober instead … [Read more...] about High on Life
It's been a good year for Maura O'Connell. In addition to releasing her third solo album, "A Real Life Story," her tours are doing well. But significantly for Maura, she was also nominated for a Grammy and whatever you make of the Grammys the Oscars of the music business—her nomination is an accolade she treasures. "When I was nominated, I was just flabbergasted," she recalls. … [Read more...] about The Irish in Country | From County Clare to Country Nashville
The stretch limousine pulls up outside the backstage door at the Westbury Music Fair in Long Island, New York on a warm Sunday evening in early April. And Eddie Rabbitt, 6'3," skinny as a rail and clad in tight jeans and cowboy boots emerges. Fans lean over the rail to be kissed and have their hands shaken and Eddie smiles good-naturedly, signing autographs and joking to the … [Read more...] about An American Boy with a Touch of the Old Country
Six years after she lost her job for raising questions about the validity of her superior's scientific research data, Dr. Margot O'Toole, a Dublin-born biological researcher living in Boston, has been vindicated in spectacular fashion. Once shunned as a supposed troublemaker, she is now being hailed as a hero. And in the course of her now famed fight against the status quo of … [Read more...] about Margot O’Toole’s Scientific Integrity
"I don't think that there is any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart someday." —Senator Pat Moynihan after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. But you didn't have to be Irish to feel a broken heart that cold November weekend in 1963 when – as a nation – we sat glued to our television sets to witness images forever etched on … [Read more...] about Ted Kennedy: Staying the Course
