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August September 2019 Issue

The Un-Quiet Ghosts of the Carricks

By Maggie Holland, Assistant Editor
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by 1 Comment

Beside the monument is a bell from the boat, found near Blanc-Sablon in 1968. (Photos courtesy of CBC Radio-Canada).

Bones of Irish children were found 170 years after they died on a “coffin ship” en route to Canada in 1847. Vertebra and jaw bones were identified among the remains, believed to be of Irish children fleeing the Great Hunger, that were discovered in 2011 on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, about 500 miles from Montreal, in Canada. Canadian scientists have concluded that the bones that … [Read more...] about The Un-Quiet Ghosts of the Carricks

Irish Eye On Hollywood: August / September 2019

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

KEEPING UP WITH THE GLEESONS It’s the Gleeson family’s world. The rest of us just live in it. This autumn will be a special time for the Irish acting clan, made up of patriarch Brendan Gleeson and sons Brian and Domhnall. Domhnall was featured in the summer Irish-American gangster flick The Kitchen, about the wives of West Side Manhattan hoods taking over various criminal … [Read more...] about Irish Eye On Hollywood: August / September 2019

Caron Music Award Named for Thomas Moran

By Mary Gallagher, Assistant Editor
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

John Greed addresses the gathering. (Photos by Samantha Nandez and Vladimir Weinstein, BFA.com).

Caron Treatment Centers' annual NYC gala. ℘℘℘ Caron Treatment Centers, an addiction recovery center, hosted its annual NYC gala dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street on May 8, 2019, and renamed its prestigious music award for the late Thomas J. Moran, business leader, philanthropist, and much-loved member of the Irish-American community, who passed away in August 2018. “Tom was a … [Read more...] about Caron Music Award Named for Thomas Moran

Dr. Paddy Boland Receives “Nobility in Science” Award

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by 1 Comment

Dr. Paddy Boland (second from left), and (left to right): dinner co-chairs Sean Mackin, Mike Carty, and Dr. Jonathan Lewis, an honorary board member of the Sarcoma Foundation and the 2019 event chair.

The 17th Annual New York City fundraising event, “Stand Up to Sarcoma,” was held on Thursday, May 9, at Gustavino’s on East 59th Street. Dr. Paddy Boland, the Irish-born surgeon who has spent his career doing groundbreaking work at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, received the “Nobility in Science Award,” and his friends in the Irish community turned out in force, … [Read more...] about Dr. Paddy Boland Receives “Nobility in Science” Award

A Win For Heroes

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

Photographer Peter Foley spent months documenting the aftermath of 9/11.

9/11 Bill Passes the Senate. New Yorkers were sweating through a brutal heat wave at the end of July this year when grim news began circulating, from Briggs Avenue in the Bronx and East 111th Street in Harlem to the quieter suburbs of Westchester County and the historically Irish enclaves in Long Island and the New York City boroughs, where generations of New York City cops, … [Read more...] about A Win For Heroes

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Mary O’Connell, famous American Civil War nurse, was born in Limerick on this day in 1814. After immigrating to the U.S. and being educated there, O’Connell became Sister Anthony, SC. On the battlefield, she became known as “the angel of the battlefield.” Aside from caring for soldiers, Sister Anthony was also recognized for her work during the yellow fever scare of 1877.

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