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For the Love of Ireland

By Susan Cahill, Contributor
October / November 2001

October 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Author Susan Cahill tells what prompted her to write For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers. I grew up in New York City in an Irish-American family whose patriarch on my mother's side fought to keep Ulysses out of the Queensborough public libraries and later grand-marshaled the St. Patrick's Day Parade. As a graduate student in David … [Read more...] about For the Love of Ireland

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By Tom Deignan, Columnist
October / November 2001

October 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

RECOMMENDED For decades, one simple question has split the Irish on both sides of the Atlantic into two warring factions: Do you love or loathe The Quiet Man, that 1952 stage Irish classic starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and directed by John Ford? Ford himself was often more Irish than the Irish themselves, making up an ultra-Gaelic name for himself, and playing … [Read more...] about Book Reviews

Book Reviews

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
April / May 2001

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NON-FICTION Two new books could be grouped under the Lg "The Irish: Then and Now." First there's Irish America Coming into Clover: The Evolution of a Culture by Maureen Dezell. A Boston Globe staff writer, Dezell takes a rather irreverent look at Irish America in the year 2000. Some may be rubbed the wrong way by her not-too-veiled efforts to expose what may be … [Read more...] about Book Reviews

Margaret Mitchell’s
Lasting Gift

By Elizabeth Raggi, Contributor
December / January 2001

December 1, 2000 by 1 Comment

Madam, I greet you on the beginning of a great new career." With these words John Mitchell presented his wife, Margaret, with a second-hand Remington typewriter. Ten years later Margaret Mitchell presented to the world her masterpiece, Gone With the Wind. On November 8, 2000, 100 years after her birth we remember her extraordinary gift. By the age of 25 Margaret Mitchell … [Read more...] about Margaret Mitchell’s
Lasting Gift

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