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New York Yankees Irish Heritage 2025

March 27, 2025 by Leave a Comment

New York Yankees Irish Heritage Cap 2025

Celebrate Irish Heritage at Yankee Stadium in July when the Yankees take on the Seattle Mariners Irish America is excited to share that Irish Heritage will once again be celebrated at Yankee Stadium this season.  The Yankees will play the Seattle Mariners from Tuesday, July 8th, to Thursday, July 10th, for a three-night home stand at the famed stadium with tickets available … [Read more...] about New York Yankees Irish Heritage 2025

The Heroes of ’47

By Keith J. Kelly, Daily News journalist & son-in-law of Kerry football great Eddie Walsh.

September / October 1997

February 28, 2025 by Leave a Comment

The 50th anniversary of the All-Ireland Football Final, played in New York. It's been fifty years since County Cavan pulled a stunning upset victory against County Kerry at the Polo Grounds in New York City, in the only All-Ireland Gaelic Football Championship ever played outside of Ireland.  Back on September 14, 1947, the local press in New York seemed not to know what to … [Read more...] about The Heroes of ’47

“The Good Sport”

Winter 2024

February 6, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Sean Reidy, co-founder with Patricia Harty of the Irish America Hall of Fame; Sean Connick, CEO of the Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience, in New Ross, Co. Wexford, where the Irish America Hall of Fame is housed; and Hall of Fame member Kevin M. White.

In this excerpt from his memoir The Good Sport, Kevin White takes us on his journey as an Irish Catholic kid growing up in “blue-collar” Amityville on Long Island while scrambling to help his parents make ends meet, to the position of “the best of the best” among intercollegiate athletic directors of his generation. Navigating the winding roads, with endless rotaries, up to … [Read more...] about “The Good Sport”

Lady Mary Peters: a champion of sport and community

By Ray Cavanaugh

January 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment

Consisting of high jump, hurdles, long jump, shot put and running, the women's pentathlon was likely the best all-around measure of female athleticism. It is not much of a logical leap to conclude that the winner of the Olympic women's pentathlon (which has since added two events to become a heptathlon) was the most physically able woman on the planet. Out of roughly 2 billion … [Read more...] about Lady Mary Peters: a champion of sport and community

Charles Riley: Jesse Owens’ ‘Irish Father’

By Chuck Leddy

March/April 1997

November 22, 2024 by Leave a Comment

The fascinating relationship between Coach Charles Riley and his pupil, the legendary, Jesse Owens, is an engrossing human interest story about a gentle, selfless, Irish American school teacher who became a second father to a disadvantaged Black adolescent. From completely different backgrounds, Owens and Riley grew to love and respect each other at a time of overt racial … [Read more...] about Charles Riley: Jesse Owens’ ‘Irish Father’

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