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American Mother

By Tom Deignan
IA Newsletter
March 9, 2024

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The crowd on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at Manhattan's Swift Hibernian Lounge, off The Bowery, was energetic. In the back room, Dublin-born author Colum McCann smiled and shook many hands, while also introducing Diane Foley to many of those who’d come out to launch the co-authors’ powerful new book American Mother. In a new interview with Irish America magazine, McCann confronts … [Read more...] about American Mother

Take a Visit to Carrick Mór this St. Patrick’s Day

By Patricia Harty
IA Newsletter

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From books and Aran sweaters to Barry's tea and classy T-shirts, you will find every Irish thing you need in Carrick Mór. Kristin McGowan, Irish America contributor, chats about her Irish heritage and what inspired her and her husband, Mike, to open an Irish store in the New Jersey town of Glen Rock, almost ten years ago. Tell me about your Irish heritage. What generation are … [Read more...] about Take a Visit to Carrick Mór this St. Patrick’s Day

Lola Ridge, Poet and Anarchist

By Rosemary Rogers
IA Newsletter, March 2,2024

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“How can you help writing about something you feel intensely?” Ireland may have more poets than any other Western nation, but Lola Ridge remains in absentia on lists of Irish poets. True, most of her life was lived outside Ireland but she held her Irish heritage close, believing she was of royal Irish blood, the Reillys of Loughrea, County Galway a “very old race of kings.” … [Read more...] about Lola Ridge, Poet and Anarchist

Connecting After a Half-Century

By Enda Cullen
IA Newsletter January 13, 2023

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‘God bless Facebook’ That was the phrase that kept going through my head in Glasgow Crematorium. As I listened to the minister conducting the funeral service I was wondering if what I was thinking was blasphemy. This was the funeral of my first cousin John Cullen who I had just physically linked up with, after 58 years, a few weeks earlier in Turkey. I had often read of … [Read more...] about Connecting After a Half-Century

July 29th News Roundup

By Mary Cucinell
IA Newsletter, July 29, 2023

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Irish Women Make an Impressive First Impression On Wednesday morning in Perth, Australia the Republic of Ireland Women’s National Team and Captain Katie McCabe made history at the Women’s World Cup by scoring their first-ever goal at their first ever World Cup within the first 4:00 minutes of the game. That is not the only reason it made history, the goal that McCabe scored … [Read more...] about July 29th News Roundup