Over 400 delegates attended the second annual U.S.-Ireland Forum hosted at University College Dublin in early November, which was yet another extraordinary success. The delegates were drawn from Irish politics, business, students, academics and ordinary members of the public. The topics ranged from the role of America in the Obama era to how deep the Irish financial crisis is … [Read more...] about Second U.S.-Ireland Forum a Success
Niall O'Dowd
Everywhere He Wants to Be: Michael O’Hara Lynch
He travels the globe putting sponsorship deals together and whether it’s the soccer World Cup in South Africa or the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs or the Olympics in Beijing, Visa’s Michael O’Hara Lynch will be there. Michael O’Hara Lynch is everywhere you would want to be. As head of Visa event and sponsorship marketing he flies to World Cups, Olympics, Super Bowls and … [Read more...] about Everywhere He Wants to Be: Michael O’Hara Lynch
Bliss to Be Alive
Belfast: “Bliss it was to be alive” the poet William Wordsworth once wrote. It felt like that in Belfast on Tuesday, May 8th. What the world thought was once impossible was suddenly live before my very eyes. The Reverend Ian Paisley, the paragon of hardline Protestantism, and Martin McGuinness, the former IRA leader, were walking down the ornate stairway of Stormont Castle … [Read more...] about Bliss to Be Alive
Waking Up the Irish Echoes
Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies has become renowned for its scholarship and innovation. NIALL O’DOWD reports from South Bend, Indiana. It is three p.m. on November 16, 2006, the Friday before Notre Dame faces Army in the annual pitched battle between two of the most storied teams in college football. It is a late fall day, some straggler leaves still … [Read more...] about Waking Up the Irish Echoes
Mortas Cine
Publisher Niall O'Dowd Reflects Back On The Past 20 Years ♦ I will be forever grateful to this magazine for the incredible opportunities it has given to me over the past twenty years to meet, interview and become friends with some of the most amazing people on this earth. "I am a part of all that I have met," Tennyson wrote, and in my case it has made me a much better … [Read more...] about Mortas Cine