In This Issue 1999

Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers

By James P. Gannon

February / March 1999

February 5, 1999 by Leave a Comment

From Bull Run to Appomattox, the 6th Louisiana's Irish Confederates fought proudly On April 28, 1861, two weeks after Confederate guns had fired the first shots of the Civil War against Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, a notice appeared in the columns of The Daily Picayune, one of New Orleans' leading papers. It was a call to arms aimed at the thousands of Irish immigrants … [Read more...] about Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers

The First Word: Living Up to The Nobel Prize

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
February / March 1999

February 1, 1999 by Leave a Comment

Ireland is no stranger to the Nobel Prize. Indeed the prize awarded each year in memory of Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite) has gone to citizens of the island a total of seven times. W.B. Yeats (1923), G.B. Shaw (1925), Samuel Beckett (1969) and Seamus Heaney (1995) all won the Nobel Prize for Literature. But good writers aside, the Nobel Committee has also focused on … [Read more...] about The First Word: Living Up to The Nobel Prize