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Hibernia | The Irish Father of the American Band
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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The Apple of Molly’s Eye
Molly Shannon, husband Fritz Chestnut, and one-year-old daughter Stella pose at the Big Apple Fest exhibit ar the Orchard Gallery in New York City in October. The first annual Fest […]
Farewell, Ms. Bluebell
Dance-world icon Margaret Kelly passed away on September 11 at the age of 94. Kelly was best known for her dance troupe, The Bluebell Girls, which originated in Paris in […]
Irish Eye on Hollywood
It seemed like it was St. Patrick’s Day in November — at least when it came to Hollywood. Three of Ireland’s biggest stars appeared in blockbuster movies as tinseltown prepared […]
The Future of the Ambassador Hotel
The battle over what to do with the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles may finally be coming to a close. Once a mecca for movie stars, European royalty and American […]
St. Mary of Sorrows
When you walk among the headstones of the hilltop graveyard of St. Mary of Sorrows, the first Catholic Church built in Fairfax Station,Virginia, you can’t help but notice all the […]
The Importance of Being Oscar’s Mother
Appearing before an Irish-American group in St. Paul, Minnesota on St. Patrick’s Day, 1882, Oscar Wilde was introduced not as a rising literary star, but as “the son of one […]