Irish America

December January 2020 Issue

Paul Boskind: A Man and His Castle

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
December / January 2020

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Paul Boskind, Ph.D. is a psychologist, chief executive officer, national LGBTQ activist, philanthropist, and Tony Award-winning producer and owner of a castle in Ireland. ℘℘℘ Paul Boskind couldn’t have picked a better time to visit Ireland. As he checked into the Fitzwilliam Hotel, the desk clerk warned, “It’s going to be crazy here tomorrow.  It’s the parade.”  … [Read more...] about Paul Boskind: A Man and His Castle

Paul Boskind:
A Man and His Castle

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
December / January 2020

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Paul Boskind, Ph.D. is a psychologist, chief executive officer, national LGBTQ activist, philanthropist, and Tony Award-winning producer and owner of a castle in Ireland. ℘℘℘ Paul Boskind couldn’t have picked a better time to visit Ireland. As he checked into the Fitzwilliam Hotel, the desk clerk warned, “It’s going to be crazy here tomorrow.  It’s the parade.”  … [Read more...] about Paul Boskind:
A Man and His Castle

We Banjo 3

By Christine Kinealy, Contributor
December / January 2020

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The band from Galway that plays a blend of traditional Irish, old-time, and bluegrass music they call Celtgrass. ℘℘℘ The banjo has a long, contested, and even controversial history. Musicologists now generally agree that an early form of the instrument was first brought to America by enslaved people from west Africa. It was possibly an akonting, a three-stringed … [Read more...] about We Banjo 3

First Word:
The Dreamer of Dreams

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
December / January 2020

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"We are the music makers / And we are the dreamers of dreams, / Wandering by lone sea-breakers, / And sitting by desolate streams; / World-losers and world-forsakers, / On whom the pale moon gleams: / Yet we are the movers and shakers / Of the world for ever, it seems. – “The Music Makers” by Arthur O’Shaughnessy ℘℘℘ Welcome to our annual Business 100 issue. … [Read more...] about First Word:
The Dreamer of Dreams

An Tánaiste Opens Georgia  Southern University Facility in Wexford

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir, Contributor
December / January 2020

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℘℘℘ Georgia Southern University is the first public university in the United States to open an outreach learning facility in Ireland. On November 20, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney officially opened the Georgia Southern Global Hub – Ireland in Wexford Town.There is a strong historic connection between Wexford and Savannah, with a large … [Read more...] about An Tánaiste Opens Georgia  Southern University Facility in Wexford