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Enrollment Down
at Holy Cross

By Brendan Anderson, Contributor
October / November 2002

October 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

A catholic school whose pupils were forced to run a daily gauntlet of sectarian hatred last year is in danger of closing because of falling student numbers. Fr. Aidan Troy, chairman of the board of governors of Holy Cross Girls Primary School in north Belfast, warned that the intake for the new academic year had fallen by a third. Holy Cross was at the center of Loyalist … [Read more...] about Enrollment Down
at Holy Cross

Fury Over Claim That Omagh
Bomb Warnings Were Ignored

By Brendan Anderson, Contributor
February / March 2002

February 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

A report on the Omagh atrocity has heavily criticized the controversial Special Branch of the Northern Irish police force for allegedly failing to act on an informer's warning that dissident republicans intended to launch an attack in the County Tyrone town. A wave of disgust greeted the news that the warning had been received 11 days before the massive Real IRA bomb ripped the … [Read more...] about Fury Over Claim That Omagh
Bomb Warnings Were Ignored

News from Ireland: Loyalist Feud Erupts in N. Ireland

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

A feud between two Loyalist paramilitary groups has brought British troops back to the streets of Belfast. Fighting between the Ulster Defense Association (U.D.A.) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (U.V.F.) erupted in August after the U.D.A. organized a parade of uniformed and masked men carrying U.D.A. banners down the Shankill Road in military formation. This demonstration was … [Read more...] about News from Ireland: Loyalist Feud Erupts in N. Ireland

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July 3, 1878

Famous for claiming to be born on the 4th of July, George M. Cohan was actually born on July 3, 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island. A theater legend, Cohan was born to parents of Irish Catholic descent who were travelling vaudevillians. From a young age, he and his sister appeared in several of his parents’s shows and sketches and they eventually became known as “The Four Cohans.” The group became extremely popular and Cohan was writing all their material. His most famous songs were “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Give My Regards to Broadway.”

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