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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 ‘Daddy of Baseball’Was an Immigrant fromCounty Clare
IssuesJanuary February 2021 IssueSports Archives

The ‘Daddy of Baseball’Was an Immigrant fromCounty Clare

By Pat O’Neill and Tom Coffman

December/ January 2021
Feb 17, 202110 min read
Although almost completely forgotten now, Ted Sullivan (1848 – 1929) was once among the best-known characters in baseball. He was called “The Daddy of Baseball” and “The Godfather of the […]
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Tipperary Football Team Win Munster Final after 85-Year Wait
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Tipperary Football Team Win Munster Final after 85-Year Wait

Irish America TeamNov 26, 20207 min read
Tipperary marked the centenary of Bloody Sunday with a historic win over Cork to win the Munster Final for the first time since 1935. By Deaglán de Bréadún In one […]
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Irish Links at the U.S. Open
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Irish Links at the U.S. Open

Irish America TeamSep 18, 20206 min read
  When Caddyshack star Michael O’Keefe showed up at the U.S. Open this week, it was just the latest big role played by the Irish at the elite golf tournament.  […]
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John B. Kelly: An American Champion
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John B. Kelly: An American Champion

Irish America TeamSep 17, 20207 min read
This story first appeared in Irish America in the summer of 1996 as the games of the Games of the XXVI Olympiad began. John Brendan Kelly, father of Princess grace […]
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Remembering the Champ
1998FeatureIn This Issue 1998May June 1998 IssueSports Archives

Remembering the Champ

By Marilyn Cole Lownes

May / June 1998
Jun 25, 202016 min read
The history of boxing must be rewritten. It is officially recorded that the legendary Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919-1926, was KO’ed just once in his great […]
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Smiling Mickey Welch
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Smiling Mickey Welch: Hall-of-Fame Pitcher • Occasional Poet • Lifelong Fan of the Game

Irish America TeamJun 25, 20207 min read
By Ray Cavanaugh It was surprising that Mickey Welch had such a successful pitching career: He didn’t have much size (the Society for American Baseball Research describes him as “generously listed” at […]
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