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From Five Points Riots and Romance to Alphabet City Punk Rockers

By Keith J. Kelly
IA Newsletter July 2, 2022

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Larry Kirwan is All the RageThe East Village of the 1980s will be the setting for the next play from Larry Kirwan, a co-writer and conceiver of “Paradise Square,” whose leading lady Joaquina Kalukango recently picked up the Tony Award for best actress in a musical. “All the Rage” is the title of the new play that Kirwan, an author and the longtime frontman of Irish rock group … [Read more...] about From Five Points Riots and Romance to Alphabet City Punk Rockers

Irish student Wins
N.C.A.A. Championship

By Irish America Staff
February / March 2001

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A County Louth native battled frigid temperatures in Iowa to win the men's 10,000 meter National College Athletic Association cross-country championship. Keith Kelly, a student at Providence College, finished the race in 30 minutes 14.5 seconds in temperatures of 17 degrees with biting winds. "If the race had been 20 meters more," he told The New York Times, "I wouldn't have … [Read more...] about Irish student Wins
N.C.A.A. Championship