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Summer 2021 Issue

Photo Album: The Wealth of the World

Summer 2021

September 8, 2021 by

At rest, this picture belongs to a wedding album from 1966. Plain, awkward even, it was composed by the photographer whose job it was to snap the parents of the groom. It doesn’t speak of small Galway farms disappearing over shoulders, the ride over the sea, their names. They are Edward Donohoe and Winnie, who was first Una Ryan, then Winnie Donohoe and, for an afternoon, Jane … [Read more...] about Photo Album: The Wealth of the World

Last Word: 90 Seconds Together

By Martin E. Dempsey
Summer 2021

September 8, 2021 by

"I'm not ready to give up on the anthem and the ritual of standing while its played." During operation desert storm, after Iraq’s Republican Guard had been forced out of Kuwait, my brigade set up a checkpoint on the only highway from Kuwait to Baghdad. We established a medical treatment facility and raised the American flag. It was a signal to the oppressed population of … [Read more...] about Last Word: 90 Seconds Together

The Fair Days of Summer

By Margaret M. Johnson

Summer 2021

September 8, 2021 by

For hundreds of years, Fair Day was an integral part of Ireland's rural community, writes Margaret M. Johnson. The holding of country fairs in rural Ireland goes back so far into the past that their beginnings are delightfully entangled in myth, history and tradition. Whether originally a pagan ritual or an occasion for farmers to sell surplus crops, the country fair has … [Read more...] about The Fair Days of Summer

It’s a New World and Zoom is at its Center, and at the Center of Zoom is an Irishman Named Harry

By Tom Deignan
Summer 2021

September 7, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Covid-19 threw us all into a global remote-working experiment. But will the future if the workplace be on Zoom? There's an Irishman at the helm answering those questions and more. Tom Deignan talks to Harry Moseley Global Chief Information Office of Zoom Video Communications, Inc. When the history of the coronavirus pandemic is written, loss, fear, and anxiety will be at … [Read more...] about It’s a New World and Zoom is at its Center, and at the Center of Zoom is an Irishman Named Harry

Remembering Colorado’s Forgotten Irish

Summer 2021

September 3, 2021 by

The Irish in Colorado are seeking to honor immigrants buried in unmarked graves. These were desperate, transient, uneducated, unskilled, and mostly young people. The poorest of these immigrants, without any resources or family were buried in the“Catholic” free section of the cemetery, with a crude wooden slab to mark their burial. The wooden slabs have long since rotted and … [Read more...] about Remembering Colorado’s Forgotten Irish

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