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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 Irish Woman Whose Weather Forecast Influenced D-Day Scheduling
On June 3, 1944, Maureen Flavin turned 21, on the same day she also changed the course of history with the meteorological information she recorded while working as a post office […]
Ghosting
Showing June 22 – July 4, 2021 A Theatre Royal, Waterford and Throwin Shapes Production Written by Jamie Beamish & Anne O’Riordan Directed for streaming by Jamie BeamishOriginally directed for the stage by Aidan Kelly Starring Anne […]
Lost Footage of the Deadline Artists: Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill
It was January 22 of 2019 and I was standing in this large room at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. The room overlooked Columbus Circle. There was a cocktail […]
Dr. Grasett’s Sacrifice
The story of Canadian caregivers who risked their lives to treat typhus-stricken Irish emigrants in Toronto in 1847. The documentary, “Dr. Grasett’s Sacrifice,” premiering on Sunday June 20, is the […]
“Zoomsday”A Virtual Celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Bloomsday, Wednesday June 16, 2021 at 6:00 pm EDT “in Ulysses, in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist…my considered opinion, after […]
Why Biden Should Appoint aU.S. Envoy to Northern Ireland
By Niall O’Dowd, Publisher Irish America and President Joe Biden urgently need to reach out to unionism and loyalism in Northern Ireland to help bring political stability and repeat the […]