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Music Review | Packaged for the Top: Brady

By Frank Shouldice

May 1991

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The very talented Paul Brady makes a welcome reappearance with his fifth solo release, Trick Or Treat (Mercury-Phonogram). Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, Brady has been through an unfair share of career disappointments in the past and has shown his mettle (non-heavy) by overcoming all adversity. To his credit, he has remained true to his craft and won the respect and support … [Read more...] about Music Review | Packaged for the Top: Brady

First Word: Birth of a Nation

By Niall O’Dowd, Founding Publisher
April 1991

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That Easter Monday, 1916, seventy-five years ago this month, was a sleepy one in Dublin. Most of the sporting set, high society and many common folk had gone to the Fairyhouse races, where the Irish Grand National was the star attraction. My own grandfather, from County Sligo, had taken the train to the races, the biggest meeting of the year. Years later he would relate how it … [Read more...] about First Word: Birth of a Nation

Perspectives: An Irish Empire – The Time is Right

By Irish America Staff

February 1991

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The following remarks by Donald Keough, president of Coca-Cola, were made during a recent visit to Ireland, where he spoke to the Drogheda, County Louth Chamber of Commerce. The Irish presence in North America, both Catholic and Protestant, goes back to colonial times. But the really massive migrations occurred in the nineteenth century when wave after wave of Irish … [Read more...] about Perspectives: An Irish Empire – The Time is Right