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London’s Irish Mozart: Sir Arthur Sullivan

London’s Irish Mozart: Sir Arthur Sullivan

By Ray Cavanaugh

Fall 2025

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If asked to name a writer of Irish background, many of us could rattle off a half-dozen names like we were reciting our date of birth. But if asked to name an Irish composer, then most of us would begin to hesitate. Our eyes would blink, our lips would curl, our heads would tilt while the brain struggles to process the mustier files in our index of knowledge. Surely there must … [Read more...] about London’s Irish Mozart: Sir Arthur Sullivan

A New Light for Labor?

By Brian Rohan

September October 1996

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Organized labor has been declining steadily for the past two dedicates. Can John J. Sweeney, elected last year as the president of the AFL-CIO, reverse the trend? EIGHT stories above the ground in Washington, D.C., in an office just a few blocks from the White House, John J. Sweeney smiles at the suggestion that he is dangerous subversive.  It is a suggestion he has heard … [Read more...] about A New Light for Labor?

Death of the Heart

By Sharon Parish Bowers

March/April 1995

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Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen who penned such wonderful novels as The Death of the Heart and Demon Lover, and helped establish the 'Big House' in Irish literature, failed in her own efforts to save Bowen's Court, the family home in County Cork. The N73 between Mallow and Mitchelstown in County Cork is a sharply twisting two-lane road, shadowed by high hedges and unforgiving … [Read more...] about Death of the Heart

Man charged in connection with collision at Liverpool FC victory parade named as Paul Doyle

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A MAN has been charged in connection with a collision in Liverpool during the Liverpool FC victory parade which injured nearly 80 people. Some 79 people were injured when a car collided with crowds in the Water Street area who had turned out to watch the parade on Monday, May 26. Today the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed it had authorised Merseyside Police to charge Paul … [Read more...] about Man charged in connection with collision at Liverpool FC victory parade named as Paul Doyle