The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presented its annual Gold Medal in the Arts to five formidable names linked with the Irish arts community in June. In a gala ceremony held at Farmleigh in Dublin, the awards were presented to classical flutist Sir James Galway (who appeared on The Lord of the Rings soundtrack); musician Van Morrison; actor and director Fiona Shaw; … [Read more...] about Kennedy Center Gold Medal in the Arts goes to Ireland
August September 2016 Issue
A Second Chance at Life
One of the country’s top transplant researchers is Dr. Barbara Murphy, the Dublin-born chair of medicine at Mount Sinai Health System in New York. Her expertise in the field of renal transplants gives patients a second chance to live healthy, normal lives. Dr. Barbara Murphy, Murray M. Rosenberg Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine for Mount Sinai … [Read more...] about A Second Chance at Life
A Different Key
ABC’s John Donvan captures the challenges, activism and inspiration of living with autism. ℘℘℘ Robert Foster Kennedy was born in Belfast, where he studied to become a doctor at Queens College. In 1942, Kennedy published a chilling article in the American Journal of Psychiatry. As described by veteran ABC News television correspondent John Donvan in his fascinating new book In … [Read more...] about A Different Key
Mother Courage:
How Ruth Sullivan Changed the World for Autistic Children
August / September 2016By Tom Deignan, Contributor
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There’s no way for John Donvan to put it gently when it comes to Ruth Sullivan, an Irish Catholic mother of seven and pioneering woman in the world of autism.
“She just thought it was all bullshit,” says Donvan with a laugh, though he adds Sullivan herself would never use such language.
It was the 1950s when Sullivan, and her husband, began raising their family.
Sullivan … [Read more...] about Mother Courage:
How Ruth Sullivan Changed the World for Autistic Children
High Endurance
Mountaineer Colin O’Brady talks breaking two world records, keeping children active, and shows just how far the human body can be tested. ℘℘℘ On May 27th, Colin O’Brady was one of two people to summit Denali, Alaska’s highest peak and the highest point in North America. No one else on the mountain moved that day but his partner and him. The weather conditions were so bad that … [Read more...] about High Endurance