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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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The Best and the Brightest 1998
This has been quite a year (we measure time from March to March) for the Irish in America. As our annual Top 100 list shows, the Irish, as the song […]
What the Future Holds
Bear in mind these dead: I can find no plainer words. – John Hewitt, “Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto” The New Year brings good tidings to a young couple I […]
The First Word: Our Evolving Heritage
In this issue we celebrate the realization of the American dream by so many of our people, reminding us once again of the good fit this country has proved to […]
An Always Known Place
“We people of the diaspora, whether from Australia or Michigan or the plains of Canada, get here, returning ghosts, utterly confused and in need of guidance; and we see a […]
Times They Are A’Changing
In 1984 I was part of an Irish American delegation which sought a meeting with the U.S. State Department to discuss Northern Ireland. We were the usual suspects, ethnic newspaper […]
The First Word: Pilgrimages For Peace
Nowhere in the world are Americans more welcome at the moment than in Northern Ireland. For the people there realize the importance of the American role in bringing about the […]