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: In the Beginning . . .
From the time of St. Brendan, the Irish were drawn to America. Maybe it came from gazing out on the vast Atlantic Ocean and wondering what was on the other […]
The First Word: The Heritage of Hate
“I’m Serbian,” the waiter answers a little self-consciously. It’s the height of the bombing — maybe it’s not such a good thing to say. He’s young, no more than a […]
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 […]