First Word Archives
Trailblazers Past & Present
“The Irish in Boston, as elsewhere, have an ability to see opportunity where there was…
The First Word: “People Forget So Quickly”
Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief. As the room fills up with the members…
U.S. Elections and N.I.
Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief. With the election coming up in November, Irish…
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The First Word: The Best and The Brightest 1999
This, the last ‘Top 100′ for this millennium, shows that at the turn of the century the Irish in America have reached heights of success surely unimagined by those impoverished […]
The First Word: Living Up to The Nobel Prize
Ireland is no stranger to the Nobel Prize. Indeed the prize awarded each year in memory of Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite) has gone to citizens of the island […]
United in Grief
At 3:10 p.m. on Saturday, August 22nd, the dream of a united Ireland was finally realized. Protestant, Catholic and Church of Ireland bells rang in all parts of the island […]
The First Word: The World At Her Feet
Sometimes a story comes along that captivates even the most cynical of us journalists — a notoriously hard-to-impress bunch at the best of times. Such a story is this issue’s […]
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 […]