Ray Flynn

Former Boston Mayor Immortalized

By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant
December / January 2017

December 2, 2016 by </a> By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2017-archive/december-january-2017/">December / January 2017</a> Leave a Comment

The Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park of the South Boston Seaport District was officially dedicated to the former mayor of Boston on November 12 in a gathering of city and state officials, tourism officials, labor activists, and local community leaders. Flynn, a lifelong Catholic who grew up in South Boston, served as mayor from 1984 to 1993 and U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican from … [Read more...] about Former Boston Mayor Immortalized

Still Running

By Paul Gains, Contributor
December / January 2003

December 1, 2002 by </a> By Paul Gains, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2003-archive/december-january-2003/">December / January 2003</a> Leave a Comment

Eamonn Coughlan, Ray Flynn and Marcus O'Sullivan dominated middle-distance running in the eighties and early nineties. Paul Gains catches up with the three runners today. ℘℘℘ The images remain even if the passing of two decades has dulled them somewhat -- a trio of Irish middle-distance runners racing to victory against the best competition in the world. Before sold-out crowds … [Read more...] about Still Running

September 25, 1917

Thomas Ashe, member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, died from a hunger strike on this day in 1917. Ashe, who was born in Co. Kerry, took part in the Easter Uprising of 1916 as a commander of the Fingal Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. On May 8, 1916, both Ashe and De Valera were court martialled by the British and sentenced to death. He was released but then charged with sedition and returned to prison in August of 1917. There, he began a hunger strike in protest that he be treated with a prisoner of war status.

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