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The Bells of St. Mary's

My Guiltiest Pleasure

By Joseph McBride, Contributor
August / September 2000

March 29, 2023 by 1 Comment

The Bells of St. Mary's: a tribute to a classic that humanizes CatholicismAnyone who has survived Catholic schooling -- in my case, eight years of torture by Dominican nuns, then four years of more refined sadism at the hands of Jesuit priests -- cannot help watching Leo McCarey's "The Bells of St. Mary's" with deeply mixed emotions. One of Hollywood's most popular religious … [Read more...] about My Guiltiest Pleasure

Christmas Movies

By Tom Deignan
IA Newsletter December 18, 2021

December 17, 2021 by Leave a Comment

“It’s the holiday season…” So sings Andy Williams - as have many other crooners - in the classic Christmas song “Happy Holidays.” For many Irish Americans, that “holiday season” means it’s time for our annual trip to Macy’s in New York City where, in 1947, Irish Hollywood legend Maureen O’Hara portrayed a busy holiday parade planner, in the beloved Yuletide flick Miracle on … [Read more...] about Christmas Movies

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June 30, 1932

On this day, Eamon de Valera abolished the Oath of Allegiance, a provisional aspect in the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921. This provisional aspect originally required all members of the Irish parliament to take an oath declaring their allegiance to the King. This date also marked when de Valera withheld land annuities from England.

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