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November / December 1996

The First Word: Capture the Moment

By Niall O’Dowd, Founding Publisher
November / December 1996

November 3, 1996 by Leave a Comment

Thomas Cahill's prescient piece in this issue entitled "The Irish Moment" captures much of the extraordinary success that Irish and Irish American ventures are enjoying at present. Even The New York Times tipped its august cap recently in a piece entitled "The Irish Are Ascendant Again" by Dinita Smith, which noted among other facts that "there are now some 100 Irish names on … [Read more...] about The First Word: Capture the Moment

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