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Karen Duffy

The Upside of Having YourLife Turned Upside Down

By Karen Duffy, Contributor
November / December 2018

November 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

The Duffy / Murray pain scale.

Karen Duffy writes about living with chronic pain. ℘℘℘ There is pain that hurts you and pain that changes you. Pain is a survival mechanism; it’s a signal that you need to pay attention to what is causing you harm – pull your hand away from the hot stove; jump back from the prickly cactus. Acute pain is usually caused by tissue damage and will resolve in a period of three … [Read more...] about The Upside of Having YourLife Turned Upside Down

What Are You Like? Karen Duffy

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
June / July 2012

May 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment

A model, actress and author, Karen Duffy was born in New York City and raised in Park Ridge, New Jersey. She graduated from University of Colorado with a degree in recreational therapy, and in 1989 she began modeling in television commercials. She became a video jockey for MTV in the early 1990s, going by the name Duff, and went on to win small roles in films such as 1994’s … [Read more...] about What Are You Like? Karen Duffy

A Night to Remember

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2001

June 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Irish America magazine's Top 100 awards ceremony. Of all our Top 100 awards ceremonies, this year's was perhaps the most moving as we celebrated real heroes. Irish American of the Year, Dr. Jerri Nielsen, who battled breast cancer while stationed at the South Pole, movingly contrasted the community of survivors she lived with at the polar station with the divisiveness of … [Read more...] about A Night to Remember

Roots: Duffy,
Duhig, Dowey and Doohey

By Elizabeth Raggi, Contributor
April / May 2001

April 1, 2001 by

The surname Duffy, the anglicized form of O'Dubhthaigh, is a personal name derived from the Gaelic word dubh, meaning black or swarthy. While the name is widespread throughout Ireland in different forms, the original homeland of the Duffy clan was Monaghan. Duffy appears most often in the 18th century list of clergy compiled for that county in accordance with the Penal … [Read more...] about Roots: Duffy,
Duhig, Dowey and Doohey

New and Noteworthy

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2001

December 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

Actress, model and former MTV VJ, and Irish America Top 100 honoree Karen Duffy, better known as Duff, can now add author to her list of accomplishments with her new book Model Patient: MY Life as an Incurable Wise-Ass. Pretty impressive, when you consider that for the past five years she has been battling a rare life-threatening and painful illness called sarcoidosis of the … [Read more...] about New and Noteworthy

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June 10, 2000

Frank Patterson, known as “Ireland’s Golden Tenor”, died on this day in 2000 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Born in Co. Tipperary in 1938, Patterson started singing as a young boy with his local church choir. He moved to Dublin in 1961 to enroll at the National Academy of Theater and studied acting and received vocal training. While studying in Paris, he caught the attention of Philips Recording Company after a radio broadcast. He signed a deal with the company and recorded his first record “My Dear Native Land.” He moved to the U.S. where he achieved the most success, selling out New York’s Carnegie Hall. He performed for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

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