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Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Honors NYC’s Immigrants with Historic 25-Foot Mural The Cathedral’s Largest Commissioned Artwork…
Frank Price, Hollywood Studio Chief, R.I.P.
Mary Pat Kelly remembers her longtime friend, Frank Price who served as chairman of Columbia…
London’s Irish Mozart: Sir Arthur Sullivan
If asked to name a writer of Irish background, many of us could rattle off…
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The 2021 Presidential Distinguished Service Award Recipients
The recipients of the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad for 2020 and 2021, were presented by President Higgins at a Ceremony in Áras an Uachtaráin on 2nd December […]
Got a Case of Teen Travel Angst? Find a Herd of Mountain Sheep
Truth be told, it was the sheep who saved our summer vacation. My teenage daughters were just barely tolerating the 4,000-mile, out-and-back road trip from Chicago to Yellowstone and Glacier […]
Honoring the Trailblazing Journalist Mary Maher
1940 – 2021 “Mary Maher of Chicago,” said Maeve Binchy, fellow Irish Times journalist and life-long friend, “had the great advantage of not knowing the sacred cows, and by the […]
Irish Women Writers Celebrated in New York
I’m not going to tell you too much about, Look! It’s A Woman Writer!: Irish Literary Feminisms 1970 – 2020 edited by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. Because, as Frank McCourt once said, […]
Irish Making Headlines
It’s been an eventful news week for the Irish at home and abroad. As the Emerald Isle is venturing into yet another lockdown, Irish Americans have been dominating the political […]
The American Civil War
“The Return of the 69th“ There are few paintings that capture the Irish of the Civil War era better than Louis Lang’s “The Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment.” The […]