It's Christmas Eve and the Brew and Burger on 47th Street where I work is crowded with last-minute shoppers and tired children brought in from the boroughs and New Jersey to see the tree at Rockefeller Center by irritated parents and young nannies with short skirts who look at their watches anxiously. I'm 21 years old, just out from Ireland a couple of months and homesick. For … [Read more...] about The First Word: At Home in America
Mutual of America
John Greed to Succeed Tom Moran as Mutual Head
John Greed, president of Mutual of America, was named CEO in March, succeeding Tom Moran, who is retiring after 21 years in the position. Mr. Moran, who will stay on as chairman of the board of directors, spent the past four decades with Mutual of America, having joined the company in 1975, one year after graduating from Manhattan College in New York City. Over the years, he … [Read more...] about John Greed to Succeed Tom Moran as Mutual Head
The Wall Street 50 Awards
Irish America magazine and Financial Dynamics Business Communications co-hosted the 7th annual Wall Street 50 Awards at the Sky Club on Wednesday, July 14, 2004. Chairman of Allen & Co. Donald R. Keough was the keynote speaker and many noted Irish-American figures of the financial community attended. … [Read more...] about The Wall Street 50 Awards
The Warring of the Green
New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade, one of the last major celebrations left to the Irish in America, has come under a barrage of criticism these past years; from ILGO, the Irish Gays and Lesbian Organization, who have protested their right to march, and also from local Irish newspapers, who have been denied the line of march, which went instead to The New York Post, known for … [Read more...] about The Warring of the Green
Greatest Irish Americans Book Launch
Irish Tenor Ronan Tynan and actor Milo O'Shea were just two of the Irish luminaries who turned out to celebrate the launch of Greatest Irish Americans of the 20th Century edited by our own Patricia Harty. The event was hosted by Mutual of America in their beautiful Sky Club, 35 floors above Park Avenue in New York City. Several of the authors who contributed essays to the … [Read more...] about Greatest Irish Americans Book Launch