Irish America
Irish America
St. Patrick's Day '92: The Controversy Heard Round the World What would a St. Patrick's Day Parade be without a little controversy? The trouble that surrounded last year's New York City parade seemed to spread around the world, as groups of Irish lesbians and gays moved to assert themselves as bona fide members of the Irish community. Parade organizers in New York City and … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan
Sinn Féin Devastated in British Elections The Sinn Féin party suffered its greatest setback ever at the British general election on April 9, with its president, Gerry Adams, losing his West Belfast seat in Parliament. The election, which restored Prime Minister John Major's Conservative Party to power, garnered for Sinn Féin the lowest support from Nationalist voters since … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan
In the last issue we reported on the 26-year-old Irish American woman from Long Island, Annie McCarrick, who had mysteriously disappeared from her Dublin home on March 26. Although her parents, John and Nancy, spent weeks in Ireland looking for clues, they were unable to find any trace of their daughter despite an enormous countrywide manhunt. Subsequent reports indicate that … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan
Twenty-two years in the music business, three previous songs in Ireland's National Song Contest and suddenly it was all happening for Jimmy Walsh, who kept on plugging until he made it. Walsh's song "In Your Eyes" won the Eurovision Song Contest, the biggest competition of its kind in Europe which is broadcast live via satellite. Over three hundred million people watched Niamh … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan
Three Irishmen have been remanded in custody in Antwerp, Belgium, in connection with the theft of four of the most important paintings from the Beit Collection, stolen from Russborough House in Wicklow in 1986. Works by Goya, Vermeer, Metsu and Vestier, which police said were valued between £30 and €40 million in total, were recovered from what was the biggest heist in the … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan
