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November 1999

November 1999

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FEATURES

Ed Sullivan The Talking Head

“It’s gonna be a really big shoo…” He had his own unique way of pronouncing…

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John Ford: The Quiet Man

“If there is any single thing that explains either of us,” John Ford once said…

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John Jr., Remembered

I can’t say I knew him well. Who can except for his immediate family and…

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John Steinbeck: Voice of the Dispossessed

All the great novels and stories of John Steinbeck slice into the American experience, clear…

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Our Jack

Pete Hamill writes on JFK, our Irish American of the Century Somewhere in the shadowy…

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The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

The Music Makers It’s only in the last number of years that I realize how…

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The First Word: In the Beginning . . .

Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief. From the time of St. Brendan, the Irish…

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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Builders

Henry Ford, John Philip Holland, + William Mulholland.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Business

Brian P. Burns, Chuck Dolan, Charles Feeney, + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Community

Dorothy Day, Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Father Edward Flanagan, + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Educators

Eoin McKiernan, Annie Sullivan, Andrew Greeley, + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Labor Leaders

Mother Jones, Teddy Gleason, + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Law

William J. Brennan Jr., Sandra Day O’Connor, + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Medicine

Dr. Kevin Cahill and Kathy William MaGee
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Nationalists

Brian P. Burns, Chuck Dolan, Charles Feeney, + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Politics

Bill Clinton, the Kennedys, George Mitchell, + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Song and Dance

Michael Flatley, Gene Kelly, the Dorsey Brothers, + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Sports

Maureen Connolly, John McEnroe, Mark McGwire, + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Stage and Screen

James Cagney, Maureen O’Hara, Grace Kelly + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: The Services

Rev. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill, Audie Murphy + more.
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The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Writers and Media

Nellie Bly, Jimmy Breslin, Thomas Cahill + more.
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Paddy Clancy and Frank McCourt on an Irish Festival Cruise in January 1998. Photo by James Mullin

The Paddy Clancy Call

We’re heading towards the end of 1999 and there are some, including myself, who may…

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FIRST WORD

The First Word: In the Beginning . . .


HIGHLIGHTS

Cover Story

Our Jack

News
The latest updates from Irish America’s most recent print issue….
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Hibernia
News from Ireland and happenings in Irish America….
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Those We Lost
A tribute to those who have passed on…..
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Slainte!
Tracing the history of traditional Irish food, drink, and celebration…..
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Photo Album
Photos and stories of our reader’s Irish ancestors….
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SPECIAL

Grave Markers Installed for Two Fenian Rebels: Michael Harrington and Thomas Hassett

On Saturday, October 15, at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York, headstones were placed on…

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