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Carroll O’Connor

By Elizabeth Raggi, Contributor
October / November 2001

October 1, 2001 by 2 Comments

He called his wife "Dingbat." He called his daughter a "weepy Nellie atheist." Puerto Ricans "spics"; Jews "yids." He was terrified of African Americans, homosexuals, feminists and evolutionists. But most of all Archie Bunker was afraid of change. He sat in his mangy armchair amidst peeling wallpaper and dingy windows and preached his sermon to whoever stopped by. And … [Read more...] about Carroll O’Connor

Passings

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2001

August 1, 2001 by 1 Comment

Anthony Quinn and Maureen O'Hara in Only the Looney

John Joseph Moakley Irish America lost a skilled and big-hearted leader with the death on May 28 of Massachusetts Congressman John Joseph Moakley, the South Boston Representative raised in a housing project who became one of the most influential leaders in Congress during his 15 terms there from 1973 to 2001. In January of this year he was diagnosed with incurable … [Read more...] about Passings

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