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How Guinness Saved Ireland

By Bryce Evans
June / July 2014

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At nearly one billion liters of Guinness sold per year, it has become one of the world’s most recognizable Irish brands. And though it is brewed in over 60 countries and available in more than 120, there is only one which owes its very survival as a sovereign state to the Black Stuff. Seventy years ago – February 1944 – and it is at last clear that the Allies are going to win … [Read more...] about How Guinness Saved Ireland

Celtic Argentina

By Adam Farley, Assistant Editor
June / July 2014

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Despite Argentina’s historical ties to Ireland, prior to 1979 there was a glaring absence in the Irish-Argentine cultural exchange: Irish dance. Adam Farley talks to Dominique Dure, the director of Celtic Argentina School of Irish Dance about how that changed. It started when Christine Rasmussen, an educator from Buenos Aires, traveled to Ireland in 1978 as a tourist to learn … [Read more...] about Celtic Argentina

The Irish in Argentina

By Harry Dunleavy, Contributor
June / July 2014

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On the bicentennial of Combate de Montevideo, May, 1814, which won the River Plate and secured Argentina’s independence from Spain, Harry Dunleavy writes about the considerable contributions made by Irish people, such as Admiral William Brown, in the formation and development of the country. In the southeastern part of South America lies the wedge-shaped country of Argentina, … [Read more...] about The Irish in Argentina

The Southern Cross

By Adam Farley, Assistant Editor
June / July 2014

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An interview with the editor-in-chief, Dr. Guillermo MacLoughlin. Approaching its 140th anniversary, the Buenos Aires-based newspaper The  Southern Cross is the oldest continuously published periodical of the Irish diaspora. To put it in perspective, the oldest U.S. Irish publication, New York’s Irish Echo, only just turned 84. Founded January 16, 1875 by Dean Patrick Dillon, … [Read more...] about The Southern Cross

TCM Honors Maureen O’Hara

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2014

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At the 2014 TCM festival in Hollywood this past April, Maureen O’Hara was on hand to introduce How Green Was My Valley and to chat with Robert Osborne, film historian and host of Turner Classic Movies. Before the showing of the 1941 drama directed by John Ford, TCM paid tribute to the 93-year-old actress by showing a series of clips and stills covering her enormous body of work … [Read more...] about TCM Honors Maureen O’Hara