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In This Issue 1995

The White House Conference

July 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Michael Keane writes on the historic White House Conference on Ireland held in Washington, D.C., May 23-25. In years to come historians will look back on the conflict in Northern Ireland and its resolution and will rightly judge that the Government of the United States, under President Bill Clinton, played a crucial role.  They will also point to a conference in Washington … [Read more...] about The White House Conference

San Francisco’s Irish Festival

By Elgy Gillespie

May/June 1995

June 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Elgy Gillespie reports on the month-long San Francisco Irish festival. For four years the Irish Arts Foundation of San Francisco headed by Derryman Peter O'Neill and Clareman Eddie Stack have produced the very successful Celtic Music Festival, which ran over a weekend in March and included the best of Irish music, traditional and otherwise. This year the pair ambitiously … [Read more...] about San Francisco’s Irish Festival

The First Word: “People Forget So Quickly”

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
January/February 1995

June 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment

As the room fills up with the members of the Business 100 I feel the pride that I always feel at our annual lunch at the '21' Club. I look around the room and consider the brain-power that has taken this collected group to their positions as corporate leaders in America, and I am glad that they have enough pride in their Irishness to travel to New York from all over the country … [Read more...] about The First Word: “People Forget So Quickly”

Leon’s Redemption

By Colin Lacey

July/August 1995

June 10, 2025 by Leave a Comment

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

Death of the Heart

By Sharon Parish Bowers

March/April 1995

May 30, 2025 by 1 Comment

Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen who penned such wonderful novels as The Death of the Heart and Demon Lover, and helped establish the 'Big House' in Irish literature, failed in her own efforts to save Bowen's Court, the family home in County Cork. The N73 between Mallow and Mitchelstown in County Cork is a sharply twisting two-lane road, shadowed by high hedges and unforgiving … [Read more...] about Death of the Heart

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