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Irish Win at Tony Awards

By Irish America Staff
August / September 20103

August 1, 2003 by </a> By Irish America Staff<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2003-archive/august-september-2003/">August / September 20103</a> Leave a Comment

The Irish did well at the Tony Awards, sweeping the best actor categories and landing a few prizes for their work in Hairspray, which was the runaway winner of the night. Brian Dennehy pictured left won best leading actor in a drama for Long Day's Journey Into Night. The Eugene O'Neill classic also won for best revival of a play and Vanessa Redgrave won best actress for her … [Read more...] about Irish Win at Tony Awards

The Fighting Fitzgeralds

By Irish America Staff
April / May 2001

February 1, 2001 by </a> By Irish America Staff<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2001-archive/april-may-2001/">April / May 2001</a> Leave a Comment

Brian Dennehy stars in The Fighting Fitzgeralds, premiering this month on NBC. He plays a retired firefighter and widower with three grown sons who just wants to left alone to paint. Unfortunately, Jim, the eldest son (Justin Louis), and his pregnant wife, Sophie (Connie Britton), still live at "home." Youngest son, Patrick (Jon Patrick Walker), quits his job, comes to a … [Read more...] about The Fighting Fitzgeralds

December 5, 1921

Following the conclusion of negotiations between Irish government representatives and British government representatives, the British give the Irish a deadline to either accept of reject the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The treaty established the self-governing Irish Free State but still made Ireland a dominion under the British Crown. The treaty also gave the six counties of Northern Ireland, which had been acknowledged in the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, the option to opt out of the Irish Free State and remain part of England, which they opted for. The Anglo-Irish treaty split many and on this day in 1921 Prime Minister David LLoyd-George said that rejection by the Irish would result in “immediate and terrible war.”

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