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A Warm Irish Welcome in Newfoundland

By John Kernaghan & Janice Henstridge, Contributor
April / May 2002

April 1, 2002 by </a> By John Kernaghan & Janice Henstridge, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2002-archive/april-may-2002/">April / May 2002</a> 1 Comment

Gander, Newfoundland: Hannah O'Rourke and Sandra O'Reilly Taylor, women from two different worlds who were tossed together in the turbulent wake of September 11, now share one of those bonds made of awful tragedy. Hannah and husband Dennis of Lawrence, N.Y., a Long Island suburb of New York City, were on Aer Lingus 105, a flight bound from Dublin to New York that was diverted … [Read more...] about A Warm Irish Welcome in Newfoundland

A Warm Irish Welcome
in Newfoundland

By John Kernaghan & Janice Henstridge, Contributor
April / May 2002

April 1, 2002 by </a> By John Kernaghan & Janice Henstridge, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2002-archive/april-may-2002/">April / May 2002</a> Leave a Comment

The remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Gander, Newfoundland: Hannah O'Rourke and Sandra O'Reilly Taylor, women from two different worlds who were tossed together in the turbulent wake of September 11, now share one of those bonds made of awful tragedy. Hannah and husband Dennis of Lawrence, N.Y., a … [Read more...] about A Warm Irish Welcome
in Newfoundland

September 17, 1903

On this day in 1903, Irish American writer Frank O’Connor was born in Cork, Ireland. In 1918, O’Connor joined the Irish Republican Army and helped fight in the war for independence. However, he opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and was imprisoned for being one of the Anti-Treaty combatants. After his release, O’Connor served briefly as a managing director at Dublin’s Abbey Theater, but then accepted a teaching position in the U.S. Many of O’Connor’s short stories were published in The New Yorker, for which he received much acclaim. His memoir, An Only Child, was also very successful.

A Warm Irish Welcome in Newfoundland

A Warm Irish Welcome
in Newfoundland

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