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September / October 1996

Rosie Revealed

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
September October 1996

May 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment

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

Rosie O’Donnell

Queen of Comedy

Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

Rosie O'Donnell, the queen of daytime TV, recalls the time she and her family spent in Ireland shortly after the death of her mother. ℘℘℘ I remember eating salt and vinegar potato chips and having sweets, the candy, those Marathon bars, remember those? We used to go to the woods and my cousin would shoot cap guns and we'd hide in the bushes and watch the helicopters come … [Read more...] about Rosie O’Donnell

Queen of Comedy

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April 17, 1969

On this day in 1968, Bernadette Devlin was elected to Britain’s Parliament on the “Unity” ticket, as MP for the Mid-Ulster constituency. The election followed the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster, George Forrest, and Devlin found she was running against Forrest’s widow on the Unionist ticket. At 21, Devlin was the youngest woman ever to be elected to Parliament. Raised Roman Catholic in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Devlin became passionately involved in politics while a student at Queen’s University Belfast. She helped to form the Irish Republican Socialist Party along with Seamus Costello in 1974.

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