Irish America's Top 100 recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding Irish-Americans from all walks of life -- individuals whose contributions extend to arts and entertainment, philanthropy, medicine, politics, care-giving, and community action. 1997 Honorees … [Read more...] about Top 100
March April 1997 Issue
Stage Irish
By Retta Blaney
March/April 1997
From East to West Coast, Irish theater companies are booming as never before. The creation of the Thomas Davis Irish Players conjures an image of monks in monasteries, copying manuscripts with quills. The year was 1933 and seven young Irishmen, some of whom had been actors in Ireland, were studying for their high school equivalency tests in New York City. Missing their … [Read more...] about Stage Irish
March / April 1997
Ireland’s Banished Children
Many of the thousands of Irish babies adopted in the U.S. in the '40s, '50s, and '60s are reclaiming their roots. Emer Mullins reports. ℘℘℘ In a quiet convent outside Dublin, an elderly nun is in possession of a veritable Pandora's Box relating to one of the most controversial periods in Irish social history. Sr. Patricia Quinn used to work at St. Patrick's Guild in Dublin, a … [Read more...] about Ireland’s Banished Children