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August September 2014 Issue

Those We Lost

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2014

July 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Jim Brosnan 1929 – 2014 Famed Irish-American baseball player and author Jim Brosnan passed away June 28 in Park Ridge, Illinois over complications from an infection. He was 84. Born in Cincinnati on Black Thursday, October 29, 1929, the day the market crashed, Jim was raised by an Irish father and German mother. He was an accomplished reader and musician in his youth and … [Read more...] about Those We Lost

Photo Album:
Granny Mac’s Centenary

By Bryce Evans, Contributor
August / September 2014

July 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment

My grandmother Nora MacNamara (née Hickey) turned 100 on June 15, 2014. From her retirement home on the Dingle peninsula, County Kerry – snuggled in the foothills of the Slieve Mish mountains and overlooking the clear blue Atlantic ocean – family and friends gathered to celebrate the centenary of a woman known to her grandchildren as simply ‘Granny Mac.’ What was the secret to … [Read more...] about Photo Album:
Granny Mac’s Centenary

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