Irish America

Irish America

In This Issue 1995

Ireland: Island of Diversity

By Kelly Candaele

September/October 1995

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The American Conference for Irish Studies held in Queen's University, Belfast, at the end of June, covered a range of topics including religion, identity, and the role of women in today's society. In 1972, Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote from Belfast, where he was a lecturer at Queen's University, that poetry had to make its way in a "world that is public and brutal." … [Read more...] about Ireland: Island of Diversity

An Always Known Place

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
September/October 1995

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"We people of the diaspora, whether from Australia or Michigan or the plains of Canada, get here, returning ghosts, utterly confused and in need of guidance; and we see a place like Ballycotton, and recognize it straight away as a never but always known place." The Australian-Irish writer Thomas Keneally summed up in that sentence how someone from so far away, both in terms of … [Read more...] about An Always Known Place

Mozart’s Irish Tenor

By Isabelle Emerson

July/August 1995

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Isabelle Emerson writes on the fascinating life of Irish tenor Michael Kelly. Michael Kelly's career started early: at the age of three he was served up on the table with the wine to sing for the entertainment of his father's guests. His powerful soprano was, perhaps surprisingly, not damaged by this unusual stage or by the succession of rather peculiar voice teachers, … [Read more...] about Mozart’s Irish Tenor

Breaking the Silence

By Kelly Candaele

July/August 1995

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The New York University Conference on. International Hunger focused primarily on the Irish Famine.  "You stood in the presence of a dread, silent, vast dissolution."  John Mitchell   Ireland's President Mary Robinson called upon the audience to "break the silence about the disaster that overcame us." President Robinson was speaking to a thousand people who came to New York … [Read more...] about Breaking the Silence

The Irish in Atlantic Canada

Story and photgraphs by John Francis Bourke.

July/August 1995

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The Irish in Atlantic Canada represent a community of considerable size. Many Irish spent years in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island or New Brunswick before eventually migrating southwards to communities in Boston, Maine or elsewhere.  The Irish in Atlantic Canada represent a community of considerable size. Many Irish spent years in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, … [Read more...] about The Irish in Atlantic Canada