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The Actress Who
Reached 7th Heaven

By Tom Cuhna, Contributor
October / November 2003

October 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Catherine Hicks.

Better known as Annie Camden on 7th Heaven, Irish-American actress Catherine Hicks talks about the differences between the show she stars in and the bulk of popular television programming. A good-humored mother in real life, Hicks shares her opinions about the modern family and working in the bizarre land of Hollywood. ℘℘℘ Despite the strong foundation of skeptics out there … [Read more...] about The Actress Who
Reached 7th Heaven

The Life of John Walsh

By Louise Carroll, Contributor
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by 2 Comments

John Walsh- Photo by Kit DeFever.

John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted and The John Walsh Show, talks about his family, his television shows, his thoughts on Ireland, and his tireless crusading. ℘℘℘ Before he was a TV icon, crime-fighter, father of a murdered child, legislative harbinger and "the guy in the leather jacket," John Walsh was an Irish-American everyman. Born in 1945 to Mary Jean Callahan and … [Read more...] about The Life of John Walsh

The Star of West Wing
Goes to Tipperary

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Martin Sheen with Irish War protestors.

Martin Sheen takes time out from a family reunion in Ireland to meet war protesters. ℘℘℘ Martin Sheen was in Ireland for a family reunion in May. His mother, Mary Ann Phelan, was born in 1903 in Borrisokane, County Tipperary, and Sheen and his brothers Frank, John and Carlos, and his sister Carmen, returned to their mother's home town for a celebratory mass in honor of what … [Read more...] about The Star of West Wing
Goes to Tipperary

The Clunes’
American Adventure

By Kelly Candaele, Contributor
October / November 2002

October 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Gordon and Adrienne Clune (back) with their three children (left to right) Aine, Justin and Conor with niece Tracy (right) on their 1883 dress.

An Irish American family go back to 1883 to discover what's most important in the present. What could be more parental than to wish to show your children how good they have it today? To take your family into the past and give them a taste of real life, when necessity stared you straight in the face and your mettle was tested by the sometimes–cruel vicissitudes of nature? For … [Read more...] about The Clunes’
American Adventure

Inside The Maze

By Siobhán Tracey, Contributor
October / November 2002

October 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

The Maze is a one-hour program that explores life inside the notorious Maze Prison (also known as H-Block) in Northern Ireland, as former inmates from both communities, as well as former prison officers tell their stories. The opening sequences are of rare early footage of life inside the original Long Kesh prison in which a prison camp atmosphere existed, and Republicans and … [Read more...] about Inside The Maze

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