Mary Mac pictured at Niagara Falls in 1972. I’ve been long enough away from Ireland now that as I planned for a recent trip, I wondered that I might feel like an outsider. A stranger to my own people. But I didn’t. I found it easy to slip back into the half-speak, the nod that says everything, the shrug that says even more. Often there was no need for words at all – everyone … [Read more...] about First Word: “Did Ye Get Healed?”
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The Joys of Cooking
Our cover story on top chef and restauranteur, Barbara Lynch got me thinking about my first forays into cooking, which involved wrestling with a Stanley wood-burning stove. I have fond memories of that black-iron beast, and the time I spent practically hugging it for the warmth that it threw off. Always cold as a child, the “range” as we called it, was the only source of heat … [Read more...] about First Word:
The Joys of Cooking
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“It’s Not What You Look at. It’s What You See.”
“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.”
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