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Eavan Boland

April 30, 2020 by 1 Comment

Irish poet, author, and professor Eavan Frances Boland passed away at her home in Dublin on Monday April 27th at the age of 75. Stanford University, where Boland taught since 1995, said in a statement that the cause was a stroke. Born September 24, 1944 in Dublin, Boland was the director of creative writing at Stanford for 21 years and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award … [Read more...] about Eavan Boland

What Are You Like? Tom O’Neill

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
October / November 2019

October 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

It took 20 years of intensive research, hundreds of interviews, missed deadlines, and publishers demanding their money back, but Tom O’Neill’s CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties is worth the wait. It’s a chilling page-turner documenting the writer’s quest to find the truth behind the Manson Family murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others … [Read more...] about What Are You Like? Tom O’Neill

‘Lost’ and Found

By Colin Murphy, Contributor
April / May 2006

April 1, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Irish author Flann O'Brien (illustrated above) is enjoying, posthumously, a renewed and feverish interest in his work thanks to the hit ABC television show, Lost. O'Brien. whose real name was Brian O'Nolan. and who wrote under a variety of pseudonyms, produced wildly inventive humorous essays and novels. O'Brien's The Third Policeman sold 10,000 copies in two days after being … [Read more...] about ‘Lost’ and Found

Booker Prize Nominee

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2003

October 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Schopenhauer’s Telescope, the first novel by Irish Poet Gerard Donovan, has been announced as a selection for the prestigious Booker Prize. Donovan lives in Long Island, New York. His collection of poems, The LightHouse, was a nominee for the Irish Times Literature Prize. His short stories “Glass” and “A Crime About Martha” were finalists in the Chicago tribune’s Nelson Algren … [Read more...] about Booker Prize Nominee

Making Ready for
Bloomsday Centenary

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

James Joyce in the company of Ezra Pound, John Quinn and Ford Madox Ford.

June 16, 2004 is the 100th Anniversary of Leopold Bloom's Fateful Walk. ℘℘℘ As we go to press and the world is celebrating Bloomsday, plans are already afoot for next year's "Bloomsday Centenary." Ireland's Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism John O'Donoghue has set up the Bloomsday Centenary Coordinating Committee, to plan the event which will hopefully lure James Joyce fans … [Read more...] about Making Ready for
Bloomsday Centenary

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June 6, 1880

William “W.T.” Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council or prime minister of the Irish Free State, was born on this day in 1880. After attending the first Sinn Fein convention in 1905, Cosgrave became politically active. He joined the Irish volunteers in 1913 and took part in the Easter Rising of 1916. He was arrested for his role and chose to serve a penal sentence in Wales. After being released under a general amnesty, Cosgrave was elected to serve in the Dail Eireann. He differed with Eamon de Valera in many respects. When the Irish Free State came into being on December 6, 1922, Cosgrave was elected the first prime minister and served for ten years.

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