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Adam Farley

Meagher’s Memorial, Late, But Not Forgotten

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment

When General Thomas Francis Meagher died, he never received a formal memorial. An Irish revolutionary turned exile, U.S. Army general, and acting governor of the Montana Territory, Meagher drowned in the Missouri River near Fort Benton, Montana in 1867, more than 2,000 miles from Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, where his wife, Elizabeth Townsend Meagher, would be buried. His … [Read more...] about Meagher’s Memorial, Late, But Not Forgotten

What Are You Like?
Allen Leech

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment

The former Downton Abbey star makes his American stage debut. ℘℘℘ ong before Allen Leech drove himself and the Crawley family into American hearts in a 1920 Renault for the surprise 2010 PBS Masterpiece hit Downton Abbey, he was on stage in Killiney, County Dublin, playing the Cowardly Lion in a grade school production of The Wizard of Oz. “I was 11 and I was hooked,” the now … [Read more...] about What Are You Like?
Allen Leech

The Face of the Rising

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
February / March 2017

February 1, 2017 by 1 Comment

Last year, Captain Peter Kelleher read the Proclamation in front of Dublin’s General Post Office, just as Pádraig Pearse had done April 24, 1916, and the ensuing photographs became the face of Ireland’s commemorations around the world.  On the morning of March 27th, 2016, Captain Peter Kelleher, of the 27th Infantry Battalion of the Irish Defense Forces in Dundalk, left his … [Read more...] about The Face of the Rising

Weekly Comment: Fionnula Flanagan’s Plea to End Dublin Homelessness

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
January 6, 2017

January 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment

The takeover and conversion of an unused government-owned Dublin office building into a homeless shelter is “the most revolutionary event to have occurred in that city since 1916,” writes Fionnula Flanagan. ℘ ℘ ℘  Hollywood legend and Irish America Hall of Famer Fionnula Flanagan, known for her movies like Waking Ned Devine, The Others, and Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: Fionnula Flanagan’s Plea to End Dublin Homelessness

The Image Maker

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
December / January 2017

December 2, 2016 by 2 Comments

FleishmanHillard president and CEO John Saunders is Irish America’s 2016 Business 100 Keynote Speaker. He believes brands get the reputation they deserve, and he wants to keep it that way by holding them to responsible, authentic, and purpose-driven missions and practices. It all began with a horse race. It was late 1985 when the news broke that Budweiser would begin … [Read more...] about The Image Maker

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Before the council of Dublin, William de Vescy, inheritor of Co. Kildare and the appointed Lord Justice of Ireland, accused John FitzThomas, Baron of Offaly, of defamation before King Edward I and the council in England. FitzThomas had claimed that de Vescy described the king as the most perverse knight of the kingdom. He also claimed that de Vescy accused the King of cowardice during the siege of Kenilworth Castle and that he was organizing an uprising against Edward I. A battle followed and the two men were summoned before the king at Westminster. On this date, de Vescy appeared in Westminster but FitzThomas did not; de Vescy thus won his case by default.

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