If you happen to have a neighbor, or even a friend, who has recently returned from a visit to the ould sod and, after a couple of drops of the crathur', they start babblin' on about strange sightings in counties Mayo and Galway, take a good pinch of salt and, please, be patient, all will be explained! It is just over 50 years since one of the first Technicolor films ever to be … [Read more...] about Quiet Man Celebrations
February March 2002 Issue
Irish America’s Business
100 Award Ceremony
A reception to honor the Irish in Corporate America took place over cocktails and lunch on Tuesday, November 20 at the Yale Club in Manhattan. The "Business 100" awards ceremony, hosted by Irish America magazine, was attended by many of the top 100 Irish-American business people. The Keynote speaker was Tom Coughlin, President of Walmart Stores Inc., the largest retailer in the … [Read more...] about Irish America’s Business
100 Award Ceremony
The Molly Maguires Remembered
Controversy haunts memorial to the Molly Maguires. ℘℘℘ On 21 June 2002, to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the hanging of the Molly Maguires -- ten Irish Catholic anthracite coal miners convicted of intimidation and murder by an impartial jury of non-peers -- ten men who led the miners' fight against capitalist oppression through the Workingmen's Benevolent Association of … [Read more...] about The Molly Maguires Remembered
Never Mind the Weather!
Ireland offers a warm welcome, even in winter. Dublin: The wind and rain lashed furiously on the tarmac at Dublin Airport, rocking our Aer Lingus Airbus like a gondola exposed to the elements on a mountaintop. We hadn't packed any sun block for this post-Christmas 2000 family trip to Ireland, but no one had told us we'd be landing in the monsoon season. It had proved … [Read more...] about Never Mind the Weather!
America’s Favorite Irish Tenor
Siobhan Tracey talks to Ronan Tynan about life, love and what keeps him sane. As my knowledge of opera is almost solely limited to the trivia fact that "Un bel di" from Madame Butterfly is playing as Glenn Close wreaks her havoc in Fatal Attraction, I did wonder fleetingly whether I needed to brush up on a few key operatic terms before meeting Ronan Tynan, the renowned Irish … [Read more...] about America’s Favorite Irish Tenor