First Word Archives
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…
The Politics of Peace
Emer Mullins, Assistant Editor. Once again, Northern Ireland dominates headlines,…
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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 […]
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 […]