Christina Noble

Mama Tina:
The Story of Christina Noble

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir, Contributor
June / July 2015

May 14, 2015 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/sharon-ni-chonchuir/">Sharon Ní Chonchúir</a>, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2015-archive/june-july-2015/">June / July 2015</a> 1 Comment

The story of Christina Noble, whose memories of her poverty-ridden childhood in Dublin inspired her to help thousands of children in Vietnam, is now the subject of a major movie. Christina Noble isn’t quite what I expected. I had anticipated someone akin to Mother Teresa dressed in a simple cotton sari, but the woman who greets me in the foyer of Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel is … [Read more...] about Mama Tina:
The Story of Christina Noble

Mama Tina: The Story of Christina Noble

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir, Contributor
May 8, 2015

May 9, 2015 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/sharon-ni-chonchuir/">Sharon Ní Chonchúir</a>, Contributor<br/>May 8, 2015 Leave a Comment

December 8, 1831

James Hoban, the Kilkenny born architect who designed the U.S. White house, died on this day in 1831. Hoban worked in Ireland as a wheelright and carpenter until his early twenties, when he was given an advanced student placement at the Dublin Society’s Drawing School. He excelled in his studies and became an apprentice under Cork architect Thomas Ivory. After the American Revolutionary War, he immigrated to Philadelphia and established his own architecture firm. In July 1792 he was named winner of the design competition for the White house in the new capitol of Washington, D.C. He rebuilt the South Portico following the 1814 fire.

Mama Tina:
The Story of Christina Noble

Mama Tina: The Story of Christina Noble

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