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The Madigan Men on ABC

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

If you missed Irish actor Gabriel Byrne's critically acclaimed performance in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten on Broadway last spring, take heart, soon you'll be able to catch him on a TV near you. This October he'll be starring in the new ABC sitcom The Madigan Men, about a divorced Irish architect living in New York City with his father, Seamus, and son, Luke. The … [Read more...] about Hibernia:
The Madigan Men on ABC

Hibernia: Film Briefs

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

Irish-American heartthrob Mel Gibson is rumored to be "very interested" in Wolfgang Peterson's newest undertaking. The director of The Perfect Storm has now set his sights on another nautical adventure – the story of Irish-born Sir Ernest Shackleton and the ill-fated Endurance expedition to Antarctica. Another tale of man vs. nature, with another Irish-American hunk in the lead … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Film Briefs

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August 19, 1876

The ship “Catalpa,” which carried six Irish Fenians who escaped from Australia, docked in the U.S. on this day in 1876. Funded by Clan na Gael and several pardoned Fenians already in the U.S., the “Catalpa” was purchased by the organization and set sail for western Australia where Thomas Darragh, Martin Hogan, Michael Harrington, Thomas Hassett, Robert Cranston and James Wilson were serving a penal colony sentence. The men were rescued from Australia on April 17, 1876 and the ship docked in New York on August 19.

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