Irish America

Irish America

1994

Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America

From the book 'Out of Ireland' with permission from Elliott & Clark

July/August 1994

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Out of Ireland, a documentary film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner, had its first public showing at the New York Lincoln Center Irish Film Festival in June, and will air on PBS television stations sometime this fall or next spring. Using as its primary source the remarkable memoirs and letters written by and to Irish immigrants in America, from Kerby Miller's … [Read more...] about Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America

Revisionists And The Writing Of Irish History

By Kelly and Kerry Candaele

July/August 1994

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The great famine, the legacy of Wolfe Tone and the nature of the 1798 rebellion, Patrick Pearse's psychological stability, and whether the gallant fight for freedom provides a thematic unity to Irish history: These and many other questions have been thrown open by "Revisionists" who regard "traditional" Irish history as a jumble of silly sentiments, wishful thinking, and … [Read more...] about Revisionists And The Writing Of Irish History

In The Name of Justice

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
May/June 1994

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After 20 years, Paul Hill wins the fight to clear his name. Close to four million Americans have seen In the Name of the Father, the movie which chronicles the events of 20 years ago in which Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson were convicted of the pub bombings in Guildford and Woolwich that killed seven people. The only evidence against them was … [Read more...] about In The Name of Justice

The Irish in New Orleans

By Harry Dunleavy

May/June 1994

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They built the roads and the canals, and died in their thousands from yellow fever. They competed with slaves to load cotton on the ships bound for Liverpool. Ships that would return crowded with famine Irish. They owned coffee houses. They took part in politics and some lucky ones became millionaires and sugar plantation owners. Harry Dunleavy writes on the extraordinary … [Read more...] about The Irish in New Orleans

Dance Across the Sea

By Patrick J. Sweeney

May/June 1994

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An Irish dancing teacher brings her American students back home. Christina Ryan is from Miltown Malbay a tiny, rural, coastal town in County Clare, and though she came to America five years ago she never really left it behind. In her new hometown of Richboro, in Bucks County, she slowly developed her Irish dancing school, and over the years a handful of dancers evolved into … [Read more...] about Dance Across the Sea