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New York Yankees Irish Heritage Cap 2025

New York Yankees Irish Heritage 2025

Celebrate Irish Heritage at Yankee Stadium in July when the Yankees take on the Seattle…

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The Heroes of ’47

The 50th anniversary of the All-Ireland Football Final, played in New York. It’s been fifty…

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Sean Reidy, co-founder with Patricia Harty of the Irish America Hall of Fame; Sean Connick, CEO of the Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience, in New Ross, Co. Wexford, where the Irish America Hall of Fame is housed; and Hall of Fame member Kevin M. White.

“The Good Sport”

In this excerpt from his memoir The Good Sport, Kevin White takes us on his…

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The Irish in Australia
ArchiveDecember January 2001 IssueSports ArchivesTop Stories

The Irish in Australia

By Patrick O’Farrell, Contributor
December / January 2001
Dec 1, 200011 min read
Commencing with convicts, feared and despised, and followed by free immigrants and settlers, the Irish became the dynamic force in Australia’s evolution into a nation. ℘℘℘ The eyes of the […]
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Hibernia: Going for the Gold
ArchiveHiberniaOctober November 2000 IssueSports Archives

Hibernia: Going for the Gold

By Sarah Curran, Contributor
October / November 2000
Oct 1, 20007 min read
New York native Deirdre Murphy is the first woman cyclist ever to qualify Ireland for the Olympics. She talks to Sarah Curran about Ireland, her Olympic dream, and her strategy […]
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Pat RileyThe Coach
ArchiveOctober November 2000 IssueSports Archives

Pat RileyThe Coach

Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
October / November 2000
Oct 1, 20002 min read
When Pat Riley coached the New York Knicks basketball team, journalist Pete Hamill listed him in a Thanksgiving column as “one of the things New Yorkers should be grateful for.” […]
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The Player
2000FeatureIn This Issue 2000January 2000 IssueSports Archives

The Player

By John Kernaghan

January 2000
Jan 13, 200012 min read
Mark O’Meara, golf’s mister nice guy, is interviewed by John Kernaghan. Some men are defined by how they win, some by their bearing in defeat. For Mark O’Meara, golf’s great […]
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An American Champion
1996FeatureIn This Issue 1996July August 1996 IssueSports Archives

An American Champion

By Mary Pat Kelly

July/August 1996
Jul 29, 19997 min read
John Brendan Kelly, father of Princess Grace of Monaco, won two Olympic Gold medals in 1920 and one in 1924, competing in a sport which was the reserve of gentlemen, […]
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One Hundred Years of Irish Olympians: Days of Glory
1996FeatureHistory ArchivesIn This Issue 1996July August 1996 IssueSports Archives

One Hundred Years of Irish Olympians: Days of Glory

By Colin Lacey and Kevin O’Neill Shanley

July/August 1996
Jul 29, 199910 min read
As the 1996 Olympic Games begin in Atlanta, Georgia, we look at some of the Irish Olympians since the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, one hundred years ago.  […]
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