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Irish America

June July 2009 Issue

Sisters of Charity: After All These Years

By Marilyn Coles Lownes

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St. Patrick’s Day is always an important day for the Irish in New York and the 2009 St. Patrick’s Day Parade was a very special one for the Sisters of Charity. Not only was it the first time that they marched in their own congregational contingent, but the 248th parade was dedicated to the Sisters in recognition of their “200 years of dedicated service to the Poor of New York … [Read more...] about Sisters of Charity: After All These Years

Lincoln’s Watch Holds Message from Irishman

By Kara Rota, Contributor

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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch in March 2009, and discovered a secretly engraved message that turned an unsubstantiated family story into a confirmed historical event. Jonathan Dillon, a watchmaker who immigrated to Washington, D.C. from Waterford, Ireland, repaired Lincoln’s gold watch in 1861 and engraved the … [Read more...] about Lincoln’s Watch Holds Message from Irishman

A Last Meeting With Beckett

By Mark Axelrod, Contributor
June / July 2009

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ith the recent publication of the first volume of Beckett’s letters I started to recall the last time I met Beckett in Paris in 1988.   We first met in April, 1985.  It had been three years since our meeting at the café in the Hotel PLM.  At noon. Noon being the time he had suggested.  The suggested hour.  At the time, there was the usual feeling one gets upon meeting one’s … [Read more...] about A Last Meeting With Beckett

How the Irish Took Over Cable TV

By Tom Deignan,Contributor
June / July 2009

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It’s been 10 years now since HBO took a chance on a little drama called “The Sopranos” and changed the face of television. When “The Sopranos” hit the airwaves in 1999, no one could have predicted that this offbeat drama about the mob and psychoanalysis would have been the first of many great cable dramas to win prestigious awards and earn huge ratings. But here’s another … [Read more...] about How the Irish Took Over Cable TV

Lady of the Dance

By Tara Dougherty, Music Editor
June / July 2009

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Maggie Revis, native to Putnam Valley, New York, took to the stage in Belgium this past winter for her debut as the female lead dancer in Michael Flatley’s The Lord of the Dance. Born into a family of competitve dancers, Maggie began her dance career at the age of three and secured her first win at the Mid-Atlantic American Oireachtas (Regional) Dance Competition in … [Read more...] about Lady of the Dance