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Silent Night

December 25, 2020 by Leave a Comment

By Pat Fenton A Christmas Eve memory comes back to me, almost hauntingly in this crazy long night of the Pandemic, the Corona Virus we’re all living through. And it makes me think again of the importance of memory and how it brings us back so faithfully to the way we were. I’m 20 years old, a young soldier from 17th Street in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. And I’m down … [Read more...] about Silent Night

The Last Irish Saloon

By Patrick Fenton, Contributor
May / June 2019

May 1, 2019 by 67 Comments

An old-time bar in Brooklyn, Farrell’s has served as a community center since the 1930s, and is the last marker of what was once a thriving Irish neighborhood. Farrell’s Bar, on the corner of 16th Street and 9th Avenue in Brooklyn, has been in the same location in Windsor Terrace since 1933. It was the very first bar to open in New York after Prohibition. The writer Pete … [Read more...] about The Last Irish Saloon

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April 1, 1966

Brian O’Nolan, who under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien wrote At Swim Two Birds, died in Dublin on this day in 1966. A civil servant by profession, O’Nolan was widely known throughout Dublin as a character and satirist. Writing as O’Brien, he published The Third Policeman, The Dalkey Archive and At Swim Two Birds, which, though not as widely appreciated in O’Nolan’s day, has come to be recognized as one of the foremost works of modernist literature. Under the name Miles na gCopaleen, O’Brien published the satirical Irish language novel An Bean Bocht and was a frequent contributor to the Irish Times, writing a column called Cruiskeen Lawn from 1940 until the year of his death. He also frequently wrote pseudonymous letters to the Times, complaining about his own columns.

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