The Sinn Féin office is located in a what could hardly be called a luxury building in what seems to be a mostly deserted area of West Belfast. In the room where I sit, there is a one-bar electric fire, a couple of mismatched chairs and little else. Somewhere on the outside a band is practicing, the drums that one usually associates with Loyalists are getting a fair belting from … [Read more...] about Ourselves Alone: An Interview with Gerry Adams
Interviews
Leon’s Redemption
By Colin Lacey
July/August 1995
With two years on the New York Times bestseller list and over five million copies in print, Leon Uris's Trinity is probably the biggest-selling novel ever written about Ireland and the Irish struggle. Now, almost twenty years later, Uris returns to Ireland with Redemption (Harper Collins, $25, 848p), a sequel to Trinity which continues the sagas of the Larkin and Weed-Hubble … [Read more...] about Leon’s Redemption
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, talks to Patricia Harty. Thomas Cahill was born one of six children to a middle-class Irish family in the Bronx. He grew up in Queens, New York, attended a Jesuit high school on Long Island, and later became a Jesuit seminarian earning a pontifical and becoming proficient in Latin and Greek – language skills which … [Read more...] about How the Irish Saved Civilization
The Big Fella: An Interview with Liam Neeson
By Mary Pat Kelly
January/February 1996
Liam Neeson's name is synonymous with success. The big, handsome actor from Ballymena, Co. Antrim, has become one of the leading international stars of our time. Nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, the veteran of some 35 movies has taken on the role of Ireland's revolutionary leader Michael "The Big Fella" Collins, in a Neil … [Read more...] about The Big Fella: An Interview with Liam Neeson
Edna O’Brien
From the publication of her very first book, The Country Girls (1960) to her most recent books, Edna O'Brien's works have gained wide acclaim, particularly among American readers. One of Ireland's most influential writers, she is famous for her rich and sensuous prose, and her books often deal with disappointments in love. In 1986, she talked to Susan O'Grady Fox about growing … [Read more...] about Edna O’Brien