"This is the first time the inside story of the Irish peace process has been told by so many of the major politicians and paramilitary leaders who helped shape it."
– WGBH executive producer Zvi Dor-Ner
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Endgame in Ireland, a four-hour PBS special documenting the hard-fought road to peace in Northern Ireland from the onset of The Troubles in the late 1960s to the IRA … [Read more...] about Endgame: The Road to
Peace in Northern Ireland
documentary
Endgame: The Road to
JFK Superstar: The Kennedys of Hollywood
By Joseph McBride
August / September 1999
The day Kennedy was elected president, my father, Raymond McBride, borrowed my 1928 "Al Smith for President" button and wore it to work at the Milwaukee Journal as a witty reminder of how far Irish Catholics had come in American national life. I was fortunate to have the opportunity of meeting JFK on three occasions in 1960 and 1962 because my mother, Marian, was vice-chairman … [Read more...] about JFK Superstar: The Kennedys of Hollywood
Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America
From the book 'Out of Ireland' with permission from Elliott & Clark
July/August 1994
Out of Ireland, a documentary film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner, had its first public showing at the New York Lincoln Center Irish Film Festival in June, and will air on PBS television stations sometime this fall or next spring. Using as its primary source the remarkable memoirs and letters written by and to Irish immigrants in America, from Kerby Miller's … [Read more...] about Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America