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In This Issue 1992

Hibernia | The Irish Father of the American Band

By Michael J. Cummings

November 1992

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During 1992, the centennial of Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore's death, many cities across the United States are honoring "The Father of The American Band." However, Ireland is where it all began for the great bandleader. The greatest bandmaster of the last century was a native Irishman named Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore. Born in Galway on December 25, 1829, the third child of Patrick … [Read more...] about Hibernia | The Irish Father of the American Band

First Word: We Are Now 44.3 Million Strong

By Niall O’Dowd, Founding Publisher
July August 1992

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Good news! The 1990 U.S. Census has reported that Irish Americans now number 44.3 million, a 3.6 million increase over the 1980 census figure of 40.7 million. The new figure is equivalent to 17.9 percent of the total U.S. population. Coincidentally, 3.6 million closely correlates to the population of the Irish Republic. There are just five million people on the whole island … [Read more...] about First Word: We Are Now 44.3 Million Strong

An Irish American Artist’s Brush with Ireland

By Anthony Glavin

June 1992

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Not every artist who dies abroad enjoys a home burial, though homage is generally paid– to Joyce in Zurich, or to Keats in Rome. Such is sadly not the case, however, for James Fitzgerald, a highly regarded twentieth-century American painter who died on Aranmore Island, County Donegal, in 1971, and whose grave is seldom – if ever – visited in Dublin’s Mount Jerome Cemetery. Yet, … [Read more...] about An Irish American Artist’s Brush with Ireland

A Stroll with Joyce on Bloomsday

By T.S. Kerrigan

June 1992

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STEPHEN JOYCE has visualized his legendary grandfather, the author of Ulysses, as gazing down from literary heaven, transported as he surveys the manifestations of his monumental prominence in modern letters. When contemplating the celebration of Bloomsday this coming June 16 in Ireland, America, and presumably other parts of the planet as well, a day when scholars, students, … [Read more...] about A Stroll with Joyce on Bloomsday

Hibernia

By Irish America Staff

June 1992

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Yitzhak Shamir and Michael Collins Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was born Yitzhak Yzernitsky in 1915, in the small Polish town of Rzhnoi. In his family he was known by the nickname "Itzel." The first name Shamir chose for himself in the underground was "Michael"-an interesting choice, for Shamir took the name from the Irish underground fighter Michael Collins, whom he … [Read more...] about Hibernia