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In This Issue 1992

Canada Recognizes Irish Famine Memorial

By Michael Quigley

May/June 1996

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The Irish in Canada have won a major victory over the Canadian Government on how the national historic site at Grosse Ile should be developed. The small island in the St. Lawrence River, 48 kilometers downstream from Quebec City, once served as a quarantine station, and is the burial site of thousands of Irish immigrants who died of cholera in 1832, and of typhus, ship fever, … [Read more...] about Canada Recognizes Irish Famine Memorial

Remembering Alice James

By Fernando G. Carneiro

September 1992

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When William of Albany, as he came to be known, left County Cavan in 1789 in search of the American dream, he could never fathom that his grandsons would become America's foremost novelist and philosopher respectively. But aside from Henry and William James, this extraordinary clan had in its midst an equal and perhaps a tad superior (as claimed by a majority of Jamesian … [Read more...] about Remembering Alice James

Angel of the Camps

By Kathleen Kellogg

September 1992

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In 1867, the two young Cashman sisters sailed from Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, to America and took the newly completed transcontinental railroad to San Francisco. With the shortage of women on the frontier, these two beautiful Irish girls were expected to be the center of masculine attention, and that marriage and family would soon follow. One of the sisters soon fell in … [Read more...] about Angel of the Camps

Morrison Visas: Round Two

By Brian Rohan

September 1992

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Hard to believe that it's already a year since the days of Morrison Madness, when tens of thousands of Irish (as well as people of other nationalities) mailed over 14 million applications for the chance of winning 40,000 green cards in a Green Card lottery. The lottery, aimed largely at redressing the shortcomings of previous U.S. immigration regulations, was a major victory … [Read more...] about Morrison Visas: Round Two

Time and Tide

By Patsy Murphy

September 1992

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A novel by Edna O'Brien One warm summer evening last year, I picked up a first edition of The Country Girl from the bookshelf in a house where I was staying and I did not leave my place by the window until I had read it from start to finish. To read the story of Kate and Baba after 30 years was like drinking clear spring water from the wells that abound in Miss O'Brien's … [Read more...] about Time and Tide

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Historically known as Bloomsday, June 16, 1904 marks the day during which all of Joyce’s Ulysses takes place. Joyce chose the date as a way to commemorate his first date with Nora Barnacle. “Bloomsday” was not established until 1954, on the 50th anniversary of the book’s events. In Dublin, several people dress in costume and retrace Leopold Bloom’s route through Dublin. Landmarks, like Davey Byrne’s pub are visited. Readings of the book are also a common event of the day.

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