A Salute to the Heroes of Northwell Health What we least expect in life can suddenly occur and impact us like a crashing wave. Such was the impact of the COVID-19 virus that arrived like a medieval plague in early 2020 spreading contagion and death to the four corners of the earth. Suddenly, what we had only imagined through historical accounts of other plagues was upon … [Read more...] about Salute to Northwell Heroes
Issues
The United Irishmen and the 1798 Rebellion
By Colin Lacey
March / April 1998
The Society of United Irishmen, founded in Belfast on October 26, 1791 by radical political thinkers, including Theobald Wolfe Tone, Hamilton Rowan, Samuel Nellson, Henry Joy McCracken and Thomas Russell, the organization's declared objective was "equal representation of all the people in parliament" and the establishment of a political system that would include all religious … [Read more...] about The United Irishmen and the 1798 Rebellion
Presidents & First Ladies of Irish Ancestry
By Carl Sferrazza Anthony
There's as much of the old sod in the White House as there is on its south lawn. The backgrounds of America's First Families are diverse: Nancy Reagan and Lady Bird Johnson have Spanish forebears; Herbert Hoover was Swiss and Canadian; Mamie Eisenhower was part Swedish while Ike was German; Martin Van Buren and the Roosevelts were Dutch; James Garfield had a royal strain … [Read more...] about Presidents & First Ladies of Irish Ancestry
Irish President Mary McAleese speaks to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, and honors those who took part in the recovery efforts
Irish America honored the heroes and victims of 9/11 at its annual Top 100 event held on March 14, 2002 at The Plaza Hotel, New York City. The honorees came from every segment of the community – firefighters and police officers, ironworkers who cleared Ground Zero for rescue workers, and families who had lost loved ones. The guest speaker, President of Ireland Mary McAleese, … [Read more...] about Irish President Mary McAleese speaks to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, and honors those who took part in the recovery efforts
Queen of the Klondike
By Gary Blackwood
July/August 1997
After the discovery of gold in the Klondike, 100 years ago, some 100,000 people headed north in search of a quick fortune. Only a handful of them found it, and of that handful, only one was a woman. When Belinda Mulrooney died nearly penniless in a nursing home near Seattle in 1970, few of her neighbors suspected that, seventy years earlier, she was known as the Queen of Grand … [Read more...] about Queen of the Klondike