Irish America
Irish America
On reading the correspondence of central early twentieth-century literary figures such as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce, one finds the name of John Quinn appearing as a kind of oblique leitmotif, and his function seems to be as some sort of agent or patron or perhaps both. This shadowiness is at least in part his own creation, for Quinn … [Read more...] about The Mighty Quinn
Jeanne Marie Flanagan was pottering around her beautiful home in Walden, New York, just before Thanksgiving in 1989 when she started to cry. "I thought at the time it was my hormones because I was pregnant, but in my spirit I guess I knew something terrible had happened," she remembered. She was right. Her seven-year-old son, Mark, was in the East Coldenham Elementary School … [Read more...] about The Gift of Life
Ray Kelly, New York City's recently-named Police Commissioner, talked to Brian Rohan about the trials of policing the world's most hectic city. For a long time it was common knowledge in New York City's Police Department that Ray Kelly was the Obvious Choice. A cop with a stellar record of problem-solving within one of the largest municipal policing departments in the world, … [Read more...] about The Commish
Donegal: It is not necessary to compare and contrast the sheer awesome natural beauty of this ruggedly stunning Atlantic county — the northern most county in Ireland - with anywhere else because like all such things it is subjective and often illusory. Suffice to say at the outset if it's spectacular scenery you want you've come to the right place. "Inearly morning twilight, … [Read more...] about The Splendor of Donegal
Geraldine Fitzgerald left her home in Graystones outside Dublin as a young girl and moved into the city to pursue her career in the theater, a career that would eventually take her to the stage in New York and to the Hollywood screen. Along the way she would come in contact with a host of characters, including the great Orson Welles, and Laurence Olivier with whom she would … [Read more...] about Geraldine Fitzgerald: A Woman for All Seasons
