First Word Archives
The First Word: An Chead Fhocal
Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief. There are so many things that I love…
First Word: Another Year, Another Scandal
DUBLIN: Now comes Sean Doherty, former Minister for Justice in the Irish government, the point…
First Word: All in the Family
The 1993 Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans also carries a section on “Great…
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“Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor…”
“Gunmen Kill Irish Aid Worker in Somalia.” The story made the headlines on Monday February 22, 1993. The worker was Valerie Place, 23, of the Irish charity Concern. For months […]
A Time for Courage and Reconciliation
June 6, 1993. The faces in the crowd reflect the divides that Robert F. Kennedy managed to cross in his short life, as black and white, rich and poor, government […]
The First Word: Does the South Want the North?
“We have constitution which perpetrates the fallacy that Ireland is one nation with a right to territorial unification…when are we going to recognize that the ‘national territory’ is Santasyland.” – […]
The First Word: The Shamrock Chain
Half of the population born in Ireland since 1820 have emigrated, some to win great fame and success around the globe. Their descendants— Irish Americans, Irish Australians, Irish in Britain, […]
Is There Any Hope?
The goverment press release reads: “Monday’s papers reported on renewed violence in Northern Ireland which left four men dead and twelve people seriously injured. In Belfast loyalist UFF, gunmen murdered […]
Trailblazers Past & Present
“The Irish in Boston, as elsewhere, have an ability to see opportunity where there was none, and if none came, to look for it, to look for opportunity.” […]