The Big Fella Liam Neeson's career has skyrocketed in recent years, beginning with his starring role in the celebrated movie Schindler's List which led to a nomination for an Academy Award. The County Antrim-born Neeson, a veteran of some 35 movies, now plays the title role in the epic movie by Neil Jordan based on the life of IRA leader Michael Collins, which will be … [Read more...] about Liam Neeson
Top 100 Irish Americans
Top 100
Honorees 1996 1997 2011 (?) 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 … [Read more...] about Top 100
Top of the Irish: Michael J. Roarty
By John McGuire March 1991
Lapsing into a hushed brogue, Michael John Roarty told of the telephone call he received one day from the president of Stonehill College, a small Catholic school south of Boston."He had a very thick brogue,and he was asking that I help out the school with its fundraiser," said Roarty, who is a magical story teller. "I was flabbergasted. I had to tell him, 'Father, I don't know … [Read more...] about Top of the Irish: Michael J. Roarty
“If You Can’t Stand Up – Stand Out”
By Irish America Staff March 1991
It is a Manhattan Irish bar late at night. Chris O'Donoghue of WWOR Channel 9 wheels into the bar with a group of friends. Heads swivel, as one of the best-known faces in the New York area passes. He knows it is only a matter of time. And it is. A large man, the map of Ireland on his face, comes lumbering down the bar. "Chrisss," he slurs, assuming familiarity with the face he … [Read more...] about “If You Can’t Stand Up – Stand Out”
Hall of Fame | The Lion in Winter
By Irish America Staff March 1991
The gentle rolling hills that surround his ranch in Goshen, New York, about 60 miles north of Manhattan, remind Paul O'Dwyer of Ireland, and that's good enough reason for him to live there. He spends almost every weekend at the ranch. The New York Commissioner to the United Nations, now in his mid-eighties, catches the bus from Manhattan, then walks the almost three miles to … [Read more...] about Hall of Fame | The Lion in Winter