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The Greening of Silicon Valley

By Chris Ryan, Contributor
April / May 2008

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Scan the upper ranks of some of Silicon Valley’s top technology powerhouses and you’ll find them strewn with Irish names like gorse on a Kerry hillside.  These executives have helped pick their companies up from the dot-com bust and already are developing the next phase of the Internet era, the socially connective technologies known as Web 2.0.  But even as they help to build … [Read more...] about The Greening of Silicon Valley

Please Treasure Our History

By Cormac MacConnell
April / May 2008

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Many of you out there in the diaspora are in possession of treasures of our history which we here at home either carelessly lost or callously threw away into the footprints of the Celtic Tiger. That reality was hammered home to me an hour ago. I was in my neighbor Jimmy’s house and his Limerick mother was there. Her eyes were glowing as she showed me an aerial photo of the … [Read more...] about Please Treasure Our History

The Chieftain of Endurance

By ian Worpole, Contributor
April / May 2008

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With St. Patrick’s season came the mighty Chieftains and their annual tour of the U.S., which began in Albuquerque in February and ended up at Carnegie Hall on March 17.  What to say about these titans? This year’s set of gigs, titled “Celtic-Scottish Connections,” marked 34 years of touring in this country alone; they have recorded 44 albums, many in collaboration with the … [Read more...] about The Chieftain of Endurance

Photo Album: The Dreary Sisters

Submitted by: Dr. Daniel Harrop
April / May 2008

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John Deary was the son of Patrick and Beatrice Deary, who emigrated from near Kerry in the 1850’s, eventually settling in Rhode Island.  Likewise, Katherine Close was the daughter of James and Katherine Close, from County Down, whose family also settled in Rhode Island. John and Katherine were married at St. Michael Church, Providence, where all their five children were … [Read more...] about Photo Album: The Dreary Sisters

Sláinte!: A Charmed Life

By Edythe Preet, Contributor
April / May 2008

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My friend Michael says he has a charming mother. He hastens to add: “I know you think we all do, but my mother has charms other than the ones on her gold bracelet. She has the ability to stop bleeding and cure burns and headaches and sprains and styes in the eyes just by laying on her gentle hands and reciting words handed down through the centuries.” The concept doesn’t … [Read more...] about Sláinte!: A Charmed Life