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Brian Friel

“Keeping Going”

Kelly Candaele
Summer 2021

September 3, 2021 by Leave a Comment

What help can poetry be during a pandemic? This summer it feels like Ireland needs Americans and Americans need Ireland more than ever. I have visited Ireland close to twenty times since my first trip there in the late 1970s, drawn by the country’s remarkable beauty, justly famous hospitality, and, during the 90s, by my interest in American involvement in the Northern … [Read more...] about “Keeping Going”

Wild Irish Women: A Most Sorrowful Mystery

By Rosemary Rogers, Columnist
May / June 2019

May 1, 2019 by 3 Comments

Oh! star of Erin, queen of tears, Black clouds have beset thy birth, And your people die like morning stars, That your light may grace the earth. – "Stars of Freedom," 1981 By IRA volunteer Bobby Sands, M.P. H-Block, Long Kesh Prison Camp Watching Bobby Sands die in 1981, much of the world realized, finally, that the young IRA soldier and hunger striker was a freedom fighter, … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women: A Most Sorrowful Mystery

North America Acts Irish

By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment

Community theater groups from throughout the United States and Canada converged at the Geva Theater Center in Rochester, New York for the 24th Annual Acting Irish International Theater Festival in April. The adjudicated festival, founded in 1993, consisted this year of seven full-length productions presented over five days, all of which were attended by Oleans-based theater … [Read more...] about North America Acts Irish

Those We Lost

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2016

December 3, 2015 by 2 Comments

Joseph Coffey 1938 – 2015 Sergeant Joseph Coffey, the legendary New York City detective who took on the mob and worked on some of the city’s most high-profile cases, including Son of Sam, died at home in Levittown, New York, in late September. He was 77. Coffey decided on a career with the police at an early age when mobsters shot at his father after he resisted their attempt … [Read more...] about Those We Lost

Springtime Brings Irish Theatre to Milwaukee

Anonymous Contributor
April / May 2006

April 1, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Springtime Theater in Milwaukee will feature a variety of Irish works throughout March and April in various theaters around the city. The University of Wisconsin, Madison theater program, will present Brian Friel's Philadelphia Here I Come in March, with a special St. Patrick's night performance scheduled. The play, which won a Tony Award on Broadway in 1966, is Friel's first … [Read more...] about Springtime Brings Irish Theatre to Milwaukee

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Today in History

January 30, 1972

On this day in 1972, great tragedy struck Derry, Northern Ireland in an event which history would remember as Bloody Sunday. Twenty-six unarmed protesters were shot by the British Army during a Nothern Ireland Civil Rights Association march. A total of fourteeen were killed, the marjority of whom were under the age of 25 at the time. The tragedy was highly publicized due to the military involvement and was responsible for turning the gaze of the world to the conflict. Often considered the pivotal event on the conflict known as the Troubles, Bloody Sunday is a day that lives in infamy in for all in the British Isles.

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