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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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Baseball Legend: Bill “Rough” Carrigan
HiberniaOctober November 2016 IssueSports Archives

Baseball Legend: Bill “Rough” Carrigan

By Ray Cavanaugh, ContributorOct 1, 20166 min read
Managing Babe Ruth, winning multiple World Series, and the no-nonsense authority of Bill “Rough” Carrigan. To control a brash young Babe Ruth – who joined the Boston Red Sox at […]
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Shannon Gaels: Field of Dreams
February March 2015 IssueHiberniaSports Archives

Shannon Gaels: Field of Dreams

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
February / March 2015
Jan 23, 20152 min read
The Shannon Gaels GAA Club in New York is one step closer to building its field of dreams – a children’s playing field in Frank Golden Park in College Point, […]
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John McDermott: Golf Hall of Famer
February March 2015 IssueHiberniaSports Archives

John McDermott: Golf Hall of Famer

By Bill Kelly, Contributor
February / March 2015
Jan 23, 20152 min read
John McDermott is finally getting his due over a hundred years after he became the first American to win the U.S. Open national golf championship. Winning at the age of […]
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John Duddy: Actor
February March 2015 IssueSports ArchivesTop Stories

John Duddy: Actor

By Thomas Hauser, Contributor
February / March 2015
Jan 23, 20157 min read
Middleweight champion John Duddy on hanging up his gloves.  In 2011, John Duddy retired from boxing. Living in New York, the popular Derry native had compiled a 29-and-2 record with […]
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A Course Called Quirky
October November 2014 IssueSports ArchivesTop Stories

A Course Called Quirky

Tom Coyne, Contributor
October / November 2014
Sep 17, 201412 min read
Tom Coyne, whose 16-week jaunt through Ireland’s 38 seaside golf courses led to the best-selling book, A Course Called Ireland, has put together a list of 18 of his favorite […]
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John Morrisey and the Saratoga Springs Race Course in the early 1900s. Photos: Library of Congress.
October November 2013 IssueSports Archives

Saratoga’s Irish Visionary: John Morrissey

By Liz O’Connell, Contributor
Sep 10, 2013
13 min read
As Saratoga Springs celebrates 150 years of thoroughbred racing, Liz O’Connell tells the tale of John Morrissey, an Irish immigrant who organized, operated and had the vision to develop what […]
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