"What The Crying Game is saying is that there is a war going on there — a war that nobody is admitting to. There is a conspiracy and an accepted level of violence, but what it comes down to is warfare. To that extent, it is about Ireland." Irish director and screenwriter Neil Jordan is speaking at a press conference about his latest movie. Currently playing to packed movie … [Read more...] about Tears of Joy for Jordan
Patricia Harty
Is There Any Hope?
The goverment press release reads: “Monday's papers reported on renewed violence in Northern Ireland which left four men dead and twelve people seriously injured. In Belfast loyalist UFF, gunmen murdered three Catholic men in a gun and grenade attack on a betting shop. The attack was described in the Irish Times as 'a virtual carbon-copy repeat of the UFF attack on a bookies … [Read more...] about Is There Any Hope?
Ourselves Alone: An Interview with Gerry Adams
The Sinn Féin office is located in a what could hardly be called a luxury building in what seems to be a mostly deserted area of West Belfast. In the room where I sit, there is a one-bar electric fire, a couple of mismatched chairs and little else. Somewhere on the outside a band is practicing, the drums that one usually associates with Loyalists are getting a fair belting from … [Read more...] about Ourselves Alone: An Interview with Gerry Adams
40 Years & Growing
By Niall O'Dowd
Fall 2025
Publisher Niall O’Dowd reflects on the life of Irish America magazine over its four decades. March 14, 1996, was the most surreal and satisfying day of all my days in America. That evening, I stood in a small holding room at the back of the stage at the Plaza Hotel, located off Fifth Avenue in New York, waiting to walk on stage with the most powerful man on earth – President … [Read more...] about 40 Years & Growing
Rosie Revealed
Patricia Harty talks to the Princess of Daytime Talk: Rosie O'Donnell They call her the Princess of Daytime talk shows. Our own Rosie O'Donnell who, at just 35 years old, seems to have the world at her feet. In 1989 when I.A. first interviewed Rosie she was already a successful comedian and "vee-jay" on VH-1. Since then she has received an Emmy nomination for her HBO Comedy … [Read more...] about Rosie Revealed