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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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Harry Truman’s Irish Links To judge by the rush to claim kinship with him by…
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Solas for Clinton
The Irish Immigration Center in Boston is having its annual fundraising awards luncheon on November 20 at the Boston Copley Mariot Hotel. This ear’s winner of The Solas Award will […]
A Family Tradition
The Murphy family business, which originated in 1939 with Margaret Murphy of Ballybofey, Co. Donegal, selling hand-embroidered linen, is now a major retailer on the world-wide web with over 50 […]
To Haiti and Back
Frank McCourt’s life-altering trip to Haiti with Concern Worldwide. “Beyond the powers of description” are not the words you would expect to come out of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, especially […]
Wilde’s Life Under Glass
The beautiful Morgan Library in New York puts the Irish master of wit and self-proclaimed ‘lord of language’ under a glass box this September. “Oscar Wilde: A Life in Six […]
A Pricey Bundle of Joyce
Also available for viewing for the first time, or at least it was before it was auctioned off, was a previously unknown draft of one of the final chapters of […]
Golden Boys
There must be something in the water of Nenagh, County Tipperary. The town’s offspring seem to have unusually high traces of medal. Make that gold medal. 1956 Olympic 1,500 meter […]