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“Happy Days” For O’Casey and Beckett
When Shivaun O’Casey first met Irish-born Nobel Literature Prize winner Samuel Beckett, she was a…
“Over There”
Americans Stationed in N. Ireland During WWII Remember that last scene in Yankee Doodle Dandy?…
Blazes Boylan
In the last issue we reported on the 26-year-old Irish American woman from Long Island,…
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The State of the Irish Lobby
Will the political events of November effect a change in the American role in the Northern Ireland peace process? The mid-term election in the United States produced a Republican landslide, […]
Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America
Out of Ireland, a documentary film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner, had its first public showing at the New York Lincoln Center Irish Film Festival in June, and will […]
Revisionists And The Writing Of Irish History
The great famine, the legacy of Wolfe Tone and the nature of the 1798 rebellion, Patrick Pearse’s psychological stability, and whether the gallant fight for freedom provides a thematic unity […]
The Irish in New Orleans
They built the roads and the canals, and died in their thousands from yellow fever. They competed with slaves to load cotton on the ships bound for Liverpool. Ships that […]
What Price Peace?
As British Prime Minister John Major and Taoiseach Albert Reynolds announced their historic “Joint Declaration for Peace” in Northern Ireland on December 15, the vital question was whether the new […]
Blazes Boylan
Three Irishmen have been remanded in custody in Antwerp, Belgium, in connection with the theft of four of the most important paintings from the Beit Collection, stolen from Russborough House […]