Irish America
Irish America
With two years on the New York Times bestseller list and over five million copies in print, Leon Uris's Trinity is probably the biggest-selling novel ever written about Ireland and the Irish struggle. Now, almost twenty years later, Uris returns to Ireland with Redemption (Harper Collins, $25, 848p), a sequel to Trinity which continues the sagas of the Larkin and Weed-Hubble … [Read more...] about Leon’s Redemption
If there was such a thing as an American Renaissance, Augustus Saint Gaudens embodied it in sculpture. TO Saint Gaudens, an artist is an interpreter of beauty in the world. A work of art is the artist's vision of a subject, colored by the light of imagination and expressed in symbols which convey what he or she has seen, in terms that will make others see and believe and revel … [Read more...] about Saint Gaudens’ Celtic Vision
Patricia Harty talks to the Princess of Daytime Talk: Rosie O'Donnell They call her the Princess of Daytime talk shows. Our own Rosie O'Donnell who, at just 35 years old, seems to have the world at her feet. In 1989 when I.A. first interviewed Rosie she was already a successful comedian and "vee-jay" on VH-1. Since then she has received an Emmy nomination for her HBO Comedy … [Read more...] about Rosie Revealed
With the election coming up in November, Irish Americans have to decide who to vote for. When it comes to Irish policy, President Clinton wins hands down for being the only president to risk Britain's wrath and put aside the "special relationship" to extend the U.S. role as facilitator between the parties in Northern Ireland. As readers of this magazine will know, Clinton, … [Read more...] about U.S. Elections and N.I.
If asked to name a writer of Irish background, many of us could rattle off a half-dozen names like we were reciting our date of birth. But if asked to name an Irish composer, then most of us would begin to hesitate. Our eyes would blink, our lips would curl, our heads would tilt while the brain struggles to process the mustier files in our index of knowledge. Surely there must … [Read more...] about London’s Irish Mozart: Sir Arthur Sullivan
