“We’re the nation that just had six of our scientists and researchers win Nobel Prizes – and every one of them was an immigrant."
– @POTUS 3:40 PM • Oct. 13, 2016.
President Obama on Twitter when the 2016 Nobel Prizes were announced.
Welcome to our eighth annual Hall of Fame issue. Our inductees represent the many arenas in which the Irish have impacted the United States. … [Read more...] about The First Word:
“It’s Not What You Look at. It’s What You See.”
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A Nation of Immigrants?
“Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.” – John F. Kennedy This past Thanksgiving, as I made my way to a friend's for a home-cooked meal, I thought about my early years in New York when I worked most holidays at my waitressing job. … [Read more...] about A Nation of Immigrants?
First Word: Climb Every Mountain
When I was a kid my father would take us for drives to County Clare, or as he called it, “Biddy Early country.” We’d drive the back road, so narrow that the trees on either side reached across to each other, pass through the tiny village of Portroe, and stop at the top of a hill at a place called the Lookout to take in the view across Lough Derg to County Clare on the far … [Read more...] about First Word: Climb Every Mountain
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“Reach for the Stars”
“We are adventuring into a new world.”
– Astronaut Eileen Collins.
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The idea of an issue devoted to women has been brewing for some time but it really took hold these past months with all of the 1916 commemorations and celebrations marking Ireland’s rebellion. Finally, the Women of the Rising are getting their due, and there has been a plethora of articles showing us just … [Read more...] about First Word:
“Reach for the Stars”
First Word: Does this sound familiar?
“I’m of Irish descent and in America, 100 years ago, we were refugees, my family. Irish were treated terribly in America for a period of time and not accepted, and America learned to accept all of these ideas. It’s what our country is, a country of immigrants. We have not recently done a very good job of remembering who we are.” — George Clooney, speaking to a group of Syrian … [Read more...] about First Word: Does this sound familiar?