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Hibernia: New O’Neill Play Makes New York Debut

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

In August, the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City hosted the very first production of Eugene O'Neill's play Personal Equation. The play was written in 1915, while O'Neill was a student at Harvard. Set at the onset of World War I, it is about characters who must decide whether to join the army or the anarchist cause, a choice that ultimately divides a father and son. The … [Read more...] about Hibernia: New O’Neill Play Makes New York Debut

Hibernia: Tom’s Still Tops

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

Top 100 2000 honoree Tom Foley, the New York City firefighter thrust into the spotlight last year for his daring rescue of two construction workers, is in the spotlight again. Now People magazine have named him one of America's 100 Most Eligible Bachelors. He's no stranger to the pages of People magazine; they have also featured him as one of the sexiest men at work. We tried … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Tom’s Still Tops

Hibernia:
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

Hibernia: The Cyberanarchists

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

When the heavy metal band Metallica hauled Internet service provider Napster into court, because fans were getting new Metallica tunes through the site for free, a new battle line was drawn in cyberspace. As the creator of Freenet, a program designed to send free information to all corners of the globe, Irish native Ian Clarke is on the front lines of this high-tech – and he's … [Read more...] about Hibernia: The Cyberanarchists

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March 23, 1847

On this day in 1847, the Choctaw Native American tribe collected money to help starving victims of the Irish potato famine. Several years before, in 1831, President Andrew Jackson seized Choctaw territory in what is now southeastern Mississippi and parts of Alabama, forcing the Choctaw to travel five hundred miles along the “Trail of Tears” to reserved Indian Territory in Oklahoma. The Choctaw people sympathized with Ireland’s forced submission to Britain, and with the starvation and disease that plagued them. A group of Choctaws gathered in Scullyville, Oklahoma and raised $170, which they then forwarded to a U.S. famine relief organization. Though U.S. contribution in aid to Ireland totaled in the millions, the Choctaw donation was by far the most generous.

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