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9/11

The Chieftains Hold
New York’s Hand

By Georgina Brennan, Contributor
December / January 2002

December 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Chieftain Paddy Moloney plays the tin whistle at Ground zero in memory of those who were lost.

"Will you hold my hand?" asked Lauren Murphy as she braced herself to greet her husband's mourners. Lauren was speaking to Paddy Moloney, founder of The Chieftains, the Grammy award-winning musical ambassadors of Ireland. Paddy and the band had come to New York to play at the memorial service for Lauren's husband. Matthew O'Mahony, a merchant banker for Cantor Fitzgerald, had … [Read more...] about The Chieftains Hold
New York’s Hand

Father Mychal Judge

By Brian Rohan, Contributor
December / January 2002

December 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Father Mychal Judge.

Fire Chaplain Mychal Judge arrived just as bodies were falling like missiles from the sky. Few in those last precious moments thought the Twin Towers would actually collapse, which is why so many rescue workers were sent running up stairs to their deaths, and why the greatest danger to people on the ground involved office workers escaping the upper floors' thousand-degree heat. … [Read more...] about Father Mychal Judge

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On this day in 1944, Irish author and poet Eavan Boland was born in Dublin. Boland was educated at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Bowdoin College in Maine. She also attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Some of Boland’s most famous works include “Against Love Poetry” and “In a Time of Violence,” for which she was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

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