Irish America

Irish America

November 1992

The Times Man in Dublin: James Clarity

By Frank Shouldice

November 1992

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A year ago, veteran correspondent Jim Clarity arrived in Dublin to work for The New York Times. Previous coverage of Ireland had generally been done by its three-man London bureau, a fact that left many Irish Americans dissatisfied and led to charges of Anglophilia especially when it came to the paper's coverage of Northern Ireland. Frank Shouldice reports. Several months … [Read more...] about The Times Man in Dublin: James Clarity

The Rascal King

By Jack Beatty

November 1992

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Saint and sinner, champion of the people and shameless grafter, James Michael Curley, four times mayor of Boston, helped to transform our governance from the politics of deference to the politics of serving human needs. In this excerpt from Jack Beatty's forthcoming The Rascal King, the people of Boston, more than one million of them, turn out to say farewell to one of the most … [Read more...] about The Rascal King

Dracula

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The setting, Transylvania, the writing style, High Victorian, the story's appeal, universal but the author of one of fiction's most famous and imitated works is Irish. Carstens Smith brings us the story of Bram Stoker, the creator of Dracula. Bram Stoker, whose name is less well known than that of his creation, Dracula, was born in Dublin on November 8, 1847. He was called … [Read more...] about Dracula