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February March 2003 Issue

The Sporting Life

By Ron Kaplan, Contributor
February / March 2003

February 11, 2003 by Leave a Comment

From King Kelly to Mark McGuire, Ron Kaplan traces the Irish influence in baseball.  Irish ballplayers have helped to shape baseball ever since the game took its first foundering steps on the playing fields of New York and New Jersey over 150 years ago. Their impact is still felt. While no official organ of the game keeps records of ethnicity, one only has to glance through … [Read more...] about The Sporting Life

Forever Hamill

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
February / March 2003

February 1, 2003 by 1 Comment

Pete Hamill, consummate newspaperman in a Fedora hat and trench coat. (Photo: Kit DeFever)

Pete Hamill, not unlike Cormac, the hero of his novel Forever, lives in the Five Points area of downtown Manhattan where the streets teem with immigrants just as they did back in the founding days of the city when Hamill's hero emigrates from Northern Ireland. (On the day of our interview Hamill had yet to see Gangs of New York which is also set in the Five Points -- see … [Read more...] about Forever Hamill

The Journey to America

By Pete Hamill, Contributor
February / March 2003

February 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Forever by Pete Hamill.

This excerpt from Pete Hamill's novel Forever takes place aboard a ship bound for New York. ℘℘℘ Holding a lantern, Mr. Partridge showed Cormac the next deck, and for the first time he saw the deck of the emigrants. They lived in four rows of bunks hammered together from rough plank, with no bedding supplied by the ship, jackets serving as pillows, coats as blankets. All slept … [Read more...] about The Journey to America

First Word: The Hands That Built America

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
February / March 2003

February 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Patricia Harty - Editor-in-Chief.

"Oh my love, it's a long way we've come." – U2, "The Hands That Built America" ℘℘℘ I'm glad I read Pete Hamill's book Forever before I saw the movie Gangs of New York. While I enjoyed the movie, the real story of the Five Points and the beginnings of New York City, which really was the foundation of what America was to become, is far more interesting. Hamill in his … [Read more...] about First Word: The Hands That Built America

On Trial in Colombia

By Frank Shouldice, Contributor
February / March 2003

February 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

The Columbia Three: Martin McCauley, James Monaghan, and Niall Connolly.

The trial of three Irishmen in Colombia will resume on February 5 after a hearing in December ended in disarray. The so-called 'Colombia Three' -- James Monaghan (56), Martin McCauley (40) and Niall Connolly (36) -- are charged with assisting FARC rebels in a guerrilla campaign against the state government. The three men, all with links to Sinn Féin, have protested their … [Read more...] about On Trial in Colombia

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