First Word Archives
First Word: The Top 100!
Dear Reader, It’s Top 100 time again and don’t for a minute think that comedian…
First Word: We Are Now 44.3 Million Strong
Founding publisher Niall O’Dowd. Good news! The 1990 U.S. Census has…
First Word: The Bishops at the Bat
Founding publisher Niall O’Dowd. There are far worse offenses for a…
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First Word: Past and Future Presidents
A “carbuncled faced old drunkard,” a “howling atheist,” a “syphilitic lecher,” a “pickpocket thief and murderer,” a “crook and an anarchist.” Hardly terms of denigration, but those are just some […]
First Word: Votes for Immigrants
With all the emphasis on registering voters in this election year isn’t it time to look at the validity of granting voting rights to the hundreds of thousands of Permanent […]
First Word: A Seminal Month for Irish America
This month marks a seminal event in the history of the Irish in America. Shortly after 12.01 on October 14 at a post office box in Washington, D.C., the first […]
First Word | The Irish in America
I remember the day I first learned of the Famine —walking home from school afterwards, through the miles of country roads bordered by the lush green fields of rich Tipperary […]
First Word: Triple Spirals at Least
The ancient Irish gave tribute to the unique nature of woman in that the symbol they gave their goddesses was that of a Triple Spiral, which can still be found […]
First Word: Good News from Ireland
Newspaper editors teil you that the public never want to read the good news, but for once I think the success story that the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) has […]