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March 1991

Hibernia | Who Wrote “Danny Boy”?

By Peter Garland

March 1991

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The words to perhaps the most famous of all Irish songs, "Danny Boy," were actually written by an Englishman named Frederick E. Weatherley, a leading barrister and lyricist of his day. The tune of this song is Irish-the "Londonderry Air," first seen in print in 1855 after Miss Jane Ross of Limavady, a village east of Derry, in Northern Ireland, had taken it down from a peasant … [Read more...] about Hibernia | Who Wrote “Danny Boy”?

Hall of Fame | The Lion in Winter

By Irish America Staff

March 1991

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The gentle rolling hills that surround his ranch in Goshen, New York, about 60 miles north of Manhattan, remind Paul O'Dwyer of Ireland, and that's good enough reason for him to live there. He spends almost every weekend at the ranch. The New York Commissioner to the United Nations, now in his mid-eighties, catches the bus from Manhattan, then walks the almost three miles to … [Read more...] about Hall of Fame | The Lion in Winter

Mary Robinson: President for All the People

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
March 1991

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On December 3, 1990 Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman ever to be elected President of Ireland. That in itself, was a history-making event in a country where politics have been almost exclusively confined to the "Boys' Club." The world took note. A major British newspaper named her Woman of the Year and there were no fewer than 2,000 media requests for interviews. … [Read more...] about Mary Robinson: President for All the People