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During 1992, the centennial of Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore’s death, many cities across the United States…
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Chicago’s Irish Heritage Center As bidding around the table became tense, one Irishman whispered to…
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Yitzhak Shamir and Michael Collins Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was born Yitzhak Yzernitsky in 1915,…
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Standing Proud
Mary Pat Kelly, director, producer, screenwriter and contributor to Irish America magazine, doesn’t always pick topics that interest the mainstream media. In 1984, she was commissioned by Rolling Stone to […]
An Icy Thaw for Belfast
In the town of Belfast, the word “Titanic” is still met with downcast eyes and a grimace. The Titanic was the world’s largest moving manmade object. It was the grandest […]
The Irish Immigrant Experience
Tucked in a corner of southwest Baltimore, the grand dome of the country’s largest railroad museum looms over a run-down area that was once an Irish enclave. On the […]
The Galway Arts Festival
Ireland’s changing. Fast. Where once the country stirred up images of threadbare tweed jackets, alcoholism and an omnipotent church, Ireland has become the new Land of Opportunity. Nowhere is the […]
Politics and the Pulitzers
Politics always makes good fodder for art. This year, two Irish-American Pulitzer Prize winners — playwright John Patrick Shanley and San Francisco Chronicle photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice — found inspiration in […]
The View to Liberty
Unbeknownst to many, Lady Liberty has a girlfriend. Thanks to the Irish immigrant turned prominent Brooklyn businessman Charles Higgins, Liberty has gazed directly into the eyes of a statue of […]