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7 Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

7 Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

Emily Moriarty
IA Newsletter March 11, 2023

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"40 Shades of Green" Back by Popular Demand Time Out New York’s #2 Top St. Patrick’s Day activity “40 Shades of Green” is back at the New York Irish Center by popular demand. Click here to get your tickets today! Kicking off at 3 pm through 9 pm, a sensational cast of 40 local and international performers, artists, and personalities will take the stage for its second annual … [Read more...] about 7 Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

A New Dawn

By Tim Pat Coogan Contributor
February / March 2000

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"The question before the House, in view of the apathy, neglect, and lack of understanding, which in this House has shown to these people in Ulster, whom it claims to represent, is how in the shortest space it can make up for fifty years of neglect, apathy, and a lack of understanding...""If British troops are sent in, I should not like to be either the mother or sister of an … [Read more...] about A New Dawn

Film Forum: A Late Encounter with the Enemy

By Joseph McBride
December / January 2000

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Few things are sadder than a missed opportunity. The story of the San Patricios, the Irish emigrants and their comrades of other ethnic groups who fought for Mexico during the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846-48, is rich and underexplored dramatic material. Complex and stirring issues of loyalty and heroism resound throughout the saga of the Saint Patrick's Battalion, which consisted … [Read more...] about Film Forum: A Late Encounter with the Enemy

‘Tis Frank

By Patricia Harty Editor-in-Chief
January 2000

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Frank McCourt is on an exhaustive book tour and won't get a break until the middle of December when he gets back to New York for the premiere of the movie Angela's Ashes. Towards the end of October, Irish America Editor-in-Chief Patricia Harty caught up with Frank on the phone from Palo Alto, California. How are you? Running, running, running from place to place, signing … [Read more...] about ‘Tis Frank

A Musical, Magical, Mystical Tour of Ireland

By Nancy Lyon

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Mick Moloney, the folklorist, tenor banjo player, songster, wit, and raconteur offers a tour of Ireland to end all tours. On both sides of the Atlantic, Mick Moloney is known for his expressive traditional singing and tenor banjo playing dexterity, and he performs widely with Derry fiddler Eugene O'Donnell and set dancing champion Regan Wick, and with the touring ensemble The … [Read more...] about A Musical, Magical, Mystical Tour of Ireland