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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The First Word: Times to Remember
This year Irish America celebrates its tenth year. And it seems somehow fitting that the magazine, whose motto Mortas Cine stands for Pride in our Heritage, should be celebrating such […]
The First Word: And Now the Good News…
Belfast: “We need a solution the dead can live with,” is how one Belfast resident, in a uniquely Irish way, described the prospects for long-term peace after the recent events […]
The First Word: No Immigrants Need Apply
Franklin Delano Roosevelt once told an uncomfortable audience of the Daughters of the American Revolution that “we are all immigrants.” It is something that we should remember now when the […]
The First Word: The New Irish Heroes
IN olden times, Ireland’s icons were comely maidens strumming harps or perhaps mythical heroic warriors such as Cuchulainn, bravely besting the enemy in his lair. In more recent times, a […]
The First Word: Where’s Our Famine Movie?
There is a curious irony surrounding Schindler’s List and the part that the Irish have played in bringing the movie to fruition. Thomas Keneally, an Australian of Irish Catholic background, […]
The First Word: Our Own Flesh and Blood
Wee Annie’s uncle is dead. You might have read about him. He got a line in the New York Times. He was the 72-year old pensioner shot in the Loyalist […]