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Canada Recognizes Irish Famine Memorial

The Irish in Canada have won a major victory over the Canadian Government on how…

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Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
Found her Voice in Ireland

In Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield: The Abolitionist “Black Swan”, Professor Christine Kinealy (Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute,…

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Remembering Alice James

When William of Albany, as he came to be known, left County Cavan in 1789…

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Founding Father
ArchiveHistory ArchivesOctober November 2000 IssueTop Stories

Founding Father

By Pat O’Neill, Contributor
October / November 2000
Oct 1, 200011 min read
A shy priest from Cavan who helped tame a frontier town. Imagine him, pale Irish skin against a black robe. On that bright spring morning in 1845 when he first […]
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Our Jack
ArchiveHistory ArchivesNovember 1999 IssuePolitics Archives

Our Jack

By Pete Hamill, ContributorNov 1, 199923 min read
Pete Hamill writes on JFK, our Irish American of the Century Somewhere in the shadowy land between myth and history lies the domicile of John F. Kennedy. The first United […]
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One Hundred Years of Irish Olympians: Days of Glory
1996FeatureHistory ArchivesIn This Issue 1996July August 1996 IssueSports Archives

One Hundred Years of Irish Olympians: Days of Glory

By Colin Lacey and Kevin O’Neill Shanley

July/August 1996
Jul 29, 199910 min read
As the 1996 Olympic Games begin in Atlanta, Georgia, we look at some of the Irish Olympians since the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, one hundred years ago.  […]
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Death of an Activist
1999FeatureHistory ArchivesIn This Issue 1999June / July 1999

Death of an Activist

By Nell McCafferty

June / July 1999
Jun 13, 199912 min read
Two hours passed before she was officially named but most of those who heard the initial news flash knew immediately who had been killed when a bomb exploded on March […]
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Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers
1999FeatureFebruary / March 1999History ArchivesIn This Issue 1999

Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers

By James P. Gannon

February / March 1999
Feb 5, 19999 min read
From Bull Run to Appomattox, the 6th Louisiana’s Irish Confederates fought proudly On April 28, 1861, two weeks after Confederate guns had fired the first shots of the Civil War […]
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Footsteps of the Past
1998FeatureHistory ArchivesIn This Issue 1998September October 1998 Issue

Footsteps of the Past

By Margaret M. Johnson

September/October 1998
Sep 4, 19987 min read
The Queenstown Story Their names were Peter, Jack, Nora, Maggie, Minnie and Kate, and one by one, the Sullivan children left Bounard, County Kerry, for Boston. They eventually made their […]
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