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Irish America On
Airlift To Baghdad

By Marian Betancourt, Contributor
October / November 2003

October 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Larry Connors, veteran of the 7th Cavalry, and recently retired FDNY chief, brings Irish America to the troops in Baghdad. Connors, who lives in Long Island with his family, was part of a humanitarian aid airlift sponsored by the U.S. State Department and Diageo, an international distributer of beverages that includes Guinness.

Three months after 9/11, New York Fire Department chief Larry Connors flew to Afghanistan with a humanitarian aid airlift sponsored by the Diageo beverage distributing company and the U.S. State Department. Another firefighter, two New York police officers, reporters, and aid workers were part of the group. This past June, the same contingent of 18 people went to Baghdad to … [Read more...] about Irish America On
Airlift To Baghdad

Women Warriors

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
October / November 2003

October 1, 2003 by 1 Comment

Photographs of Albert D.J. Cashier taken in 1864 (left) and in 1913 (right) from They Fought Like Demons: Women soldiers in the American Civil War.

Irish women in the army from the Civil War to today. ℘℘℘ On May 18, 1863, Private Albert D. J. Cashier was among the many Union soldiers under General Ulysses S. Grant who took part in the infamous siege of Vicksburg. The Union army shelled the city relentlessly for weeks, and during the course of the battle Private Cashier, a member of the 95th Illinois Infantry, was actually … [Read more...] about Women Warriors

Kabul Pub Is No More

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

In the last issue we wrote about Kabul's new Irish pub. Well, it seems that the publicity did not do the pub, frequented by off-duty aid workers and American Embassy personnel, any good. Under warnings of bomb threats, the Irish owners decided to close down. Alcohol is banned in Afghanistan, but the pub had been operating under a special dispensation from a local mullah. ♦ … [Read more...] about Kabul Pub Is No More

Photo Album: On the Town

Submitted by Kevin O'Brien
October / November 2001

October 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Cigarette in mouth and mates by his side, Corporal James L. O'Brien stands on a street in Paris in 1918. O'Brien and his friend, Pat Donovan (far left) joined "because we felt it was the right thing to do. Quite a few of our friends had been drafted." Assigned to recruitment duty in Washington D.C., O'Brien and Donovan would put up their friends who came down to enlist. "At … [Read more...] about Photo Album: On the Town

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