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December January 2014 Issue

Icons Share Memories of JFK

By IA Staff
November 22, 2013 by 4 Comments

President John F. Kennedy

An excerpt from Seven Seconds, Holly Millea's best-selling e-book in which celebrities and other luminaries share where they were and what they were doing when they found out JFK had been shot. RYAN O’NEAL (22 years old): I had a little baby in my arms and I was going to the unemployment office in my car – it was in the Valley in North Ridge. There were these … [Read more...] about Icons Share Memories of JFK

All Around Ireland

By Michelle Meagher, Editorial Assistant
September 26, 2013
September 26, 2013 by 3 Comments

The Wicklow Mountains, Co Wicklow. Photo by Michelle Meagher.

Michelle Meagher's photographs of her first trip to Ireland. Wicklow Mountains, County Wicklow. This panoramic view of the Wicklow Mountains and Lake is my favorite of all the pictures I captured on my very first trip to Ireland over the summer. My boyfriend, Brendan, who acted as my tour guide, pulled over on an almost nonexistent shoulder so I could take a few photographs … [Read more...] about All Around Ireland

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December 5, 1921

Following the conclusion of negotiations between Irish government representatives and British government representatives, the British give the Irish a deadline to either accept of reject the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The treaty established the self-governing Irish Free State but still made Ireland a dominion under the British Crown. The treaty also gave the six counties of Northern Ireland, which had been acknowledged in the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, the option to opt out of the Irish Free State and remain part of England, which they opted for. The Anglo-Irish treaty split many and on this day in 1921 Prime Minister David LLoyd-George said that rejection by the Irish would result in “immediate and terrible war.”

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