Jack Donohue, the high school coach of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and for years the face of Canadian basketball, died in late April. He was 70. A New Yorker, Donohue moved to Canada in the 1970s and served as head coach of the Canadian men's basketball team for 17 years, leading the team to the Olympics four times. Donohue coached Abdul-Jabbar, then Lew Alcindor, at Power Memorial … [Read more...] about Passings
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110th Birthday
The oldest living Irish person just turned 110. "Maybe I've been around a little too long now." said Catherine Furey, who lives at St. James Plaza nursing home in Long Island, New York. Born in Co. Roscommon on April 7, 1893 Catherine left Ireland for New York in 1913. She met her husband Simon Furey in 1923 and the couple had two children, Joan, now aged 74, and Paul, 69. Her … [Read more...] about 110th Birthday
Graduated at 94
John Kelly, 94, a retired postal worker, finally graduated from college 26 years after first enrolling in classes. Kelly, a widower, who earned his bachelor's degree from the StateUniversity of New York at Brockport, joked, "I started a long time ago, about the dawn of history. I took it one course at a time. I wasn't thinking at all about getting a degree, until the degree … [Read more...] about Graduated at 94
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Ireland Places First
Irish writer/producer Steven Benedict shared first place at the Beverly Hills Film Festival for his short film The Last. The movie stars David Kelly, famous for his role in Waking Ned Divine, as a shoemaker facing eviction as he finishes his last pair of shoes. Shot in Wicklow, the film also won Best Irish Short Film at the 15th Foyle International Film Festival in Northern … [Read more...] about Short Film from
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My Name Is Red
Turkish Writer Orhan Pamuk wins IMPAC Award. ℘℘℘ Dublin: The IMPAC Literary Award was presented on June 14 to Orhan Pamuk for his book My Name Is Red. Worth 100,000 euros, the IMPAC award is considered the most generous literary prize in the world. The winning book, by the Turkish writer and author of six novels which have been translated into more than 20 languages, is … [Read more...] about My Name Is Red