Irish America

Irish America

January February 1994

Irish Roots: Barry, Berry and Beirn 

By James G. Ryan

January / February 1994

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The Barry name is mainly of Norman origin and is very closely associated with County Cork. There is also a less common Gaelic origin from the Irish family O'Beargha, which was Anglicized as O'Barry or Barry. This family was also of Munster origin. Even today around 50 percent of the Barrys in Ireland are in Cork or other parts of Munster. A current prominent member of the … [Read more...] about Irish Roots: Barry, Berry and Beirn 

Denis & The Kids

Story and photographs by Oistin MacBride

January / February 1995

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It's long, long way from St. Patrick's School on the edge of Belfast's New Lodge Road to the sky scrapers of New York, never mind the plains of the Midwest and the fantasy of Disneyland, but that is precisely the journey made by some 900 children from the North of Ireland on a six week trip of a lifetime under the auspices of Project Children. In the playground of St. … [Read more...] about Denis & The Kids

Mission Dolores

By Jim Sullivan

January / February 1994

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A Californian Mission's Irish Past Mission Dolores, the oldest building in San Francisco, was the sixth of twenty-one missions, built under the direction of Father Junipero Serra and the Franciscan fathers, that would eventually stretch "about a hard day's drive [ride] from one to the next," from the Mexican border to an area north of San Francisco now known as Sonoma … [Read more...] about Mission Dolores

The Long Shadow

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
January/February 1994

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Tim Pat Coogan, author of The IRA: A History, talks to Patricia Harty. "I really think the Irish-Americans are crucial to this. I'm historian enough to know there would be no independent Irish state without Irish-American pressure in the 1920s. The cabinet records are there and the ambassador's records are there to show how much Irish Americans were involved." However, "one … [Read more...] about The Long Shadow

What Price Peace?

By Niall O’Dowd, Founding Publisher
January/February 1994

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As British Prime Minister John Major and Taoiseach Albert Reynolds announced their historic "Joint Declaration for Peace" in Northern Ireland on December 15, the vital question was whether the new document would be sufficient to launch a real peace process or whether it would end up as just another failed initiative. An historic opportunity for peace in our time or just … [Read more...] about What Price Peace?