Irish America

Irish America

March April 1996

Dorothea Lange’s Ireland

All photos © The Dorothea Lange Collection, The Oakland Museum of California, The City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.

March/April 1996

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When photographer Dorothea Lange, best known for her haunting series of images from the Depression era, chose Ireland as her subject in the 1950s, she was not very happy with the way the finished product was presented in Life magazine. She was, however, deeply pleased with the way her photographic series portrayed the people and the land of Ireland.  Lange had put pressure on … [Read more...] about Dorothea Lange’s Ireland

How the Irish Saved Civilization

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
March/April 1996

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Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, talks to Patricia Harty. Thomas Cahill was born one of six children to a middle-class Irish family in the Bronx. He grew up in Queens, New York, attended a Jesuit high school on Long Island, and later became a Jesuit seminarian earning a pontifical and becoming proficient in Latin and Greek – language skills which … [Read more...] about How the Irish Saved Civilization