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Senator John McCain

Hibernia: People

By Tom Deignan

December/ January 2021

September 16, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Kelly Sworn in, Remembers McCainNewly elected U.S. Senator Mark Kelly honored fellow Irish American and former senator John McCain before he officially took office in late 2020.Kelly, along with his wife (former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords) and daughter, Claire, visited the gravesite of late Arizona U.S. senator John McCain. “The family laid a wreath at McCain’s grave at … [Read more...] about Hibernia: People

Those We Lost

By Irish America Staff
September / October 2018

September 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Recent passings in the Irish and Irish American communities. ℘℘℘ William Flynn  1927-2018   Bill Flynn’s approach to business was always a human one. Colleagues called him a fair leader, attuned to the customer’s needs and concerns, which allowed him to look at the industry in ways that eluded others. In his 2008 interview with publisher Niall O’Dowd, Flynn offered … [Read more...] about Those We Lost

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May 25, 1961

President John F. Kennedy stated that the United States would be the first to put a man on the moon saying, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth,” in a special address to Congress on May 25, 1961. Later, in a speech at Rice University, he said: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.” Kennedy’s goal was achieved when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon’s surface.

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