Irish America

Irish America

September October 1994 Issue

Irish Travelers of Aiken County

By Daniel J. Casey and Conor Casey

September/October 1994

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By the mid 1960s more than three hundred Irish Traveler families had settled on a fifty-acre parcel of land that they called Murphy Village. They named the site for Father Joseph Murphy, a parish priest and advocate who started the settlement for Travelers and guided it for twenty years before his transfer in 1968. What makes Murphy Village unique is that it's a continent away … [Read more...] about Irish Travelers of Aiken County

The First Word: No Immigrants Need Apply

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
September/October 1994

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt once told an uncomfortable audience of the Daughters of the American Revolution that "we are all immigrants." It is something that we should remember now when the scapegoating of immigrants is reaching a new height in this country. California is leading the way in states that are proposing initatives that would deny public education and medical care to … [Read more...] about The First Word: No Immigrants Need Apply

Ireland House

By Michael Scanlon

September/October 1994

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Michael Scanlon talks to the team behind The Glucksman Ireland House –New York University's elegant building on Fifth Avenue. For over a year now, the very best of Ireland's writers, poets, journalists, playwrights, historians, and filmmakers, have come together in a beautiful brownstone in Manhattan, close to New York University's Campus and Washington Square Park, to take … [Read more...] about Ireland House