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Irish America Hall of Fame: Donald Keough

By Kevin Whalen and Niall O'Dowd
December / January 2011

January 1, 2011 by 1 Comment

On November 30, Donald Keough was the first honoree to be inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame, which has just been established by Irish America magazine. The following is a glimpse of Mr. Keough’s extraordinary life story from poor but proud farm family in Iowa to an international business career as president and COO of Coca-Cola. Through all his corporate success he … [Read more...] about Irish America Hall of Fame: Donald Keough

Fighting Irish Girl:
Maureen Dowd

By Niall O'Dowd, Publisher
April / May 2010

April 1, 2010 by 3 Comments

Her mother was an Irish rebel, and her father a good cop who could spot a phony a mile away.  These inherited traits turned Maureen Dowd into an award-winning columnist and author. Somewhere in Australia there’s an Irish lad called Rowan McCormick who broke Maureen Dowd’s heart. When she went back in the early 1970s to visit her homestead in County Clare, hard by the … [Read more...] about Fighting Irish Girl:
Maureen Dowd

Fighting Irish Girl: Maureen Dowd

By Niall O'Dowd, Publisher
April / May 2010

April 1, 2010 by 2 Comments

Her mother was an Irish rebel, and her father a good cop who could spot a phony a mile away.  These inherited traits turned Maureen Dowd into an award-winning columnist and author. Somewhere in Australia there’s an Irish lad called Rowan McCormick who broke Maureen Dowd’s heart. When she went back in the early 1970s to visit her homestead in County Clare, hard by the … [Read more...] about Fighting Irish Girl: Maureen Dowd

Jane Sullivan Roberts on Family, Heritage and Faith

By Niall O'Dowd, Founding Publisher
August / September 2009

August 2, 2009 by 7 Comments

Her husband may be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, but Jane Sullivan Roberts is an amazing success story all her own. Jane Sullivan Roberts, 54, is one of those rare Washington women who won’t let her husband’s achievements overshadow her. When your husband is John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, that’s quite a trick, but it is one Jane Roberts pulls off with … [Read more...] about Jane Sullivan Roberts on Family, Heritage and Faith

IrishCentral Launches Global Site

April / May 2009

April 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment

The goal of IrishCentral.com is nothing less than putting a nation’s heritage online for the first time, and to reach the 70 million people around the world who identify themselves as Irish. It is a spectacularly ambitious mission that we hope will grab headlines around the world as easily as it has drawn prominent investors to its side in record time,” says Kevin Hayes, … [Read more...] about IrishCentral Launches Global Site

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December 15, 1930

Edna O’Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer, was born on this day in County Clare in 1930. Born to strictly religious parents, O’Brien described her childhood as suffocating. She was educated from 1941 to 1946 by the Sisters of Mercy. She then went on to receive a license in pharmacy in 1950. O’Brien turned to writing and published “The County Girls” in 1960. It was the first in a trilogy that was banned from Ireland. In 2009, she received the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards in Dublin.

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