An old-time bar in Brooklyn, Farrell’s has served as a community center since the 1930s, and is the last marker of what was once a thriving Irish neighborhood. Farrell’s Bar, on the corner of 16th Street and 9th Avenue in Brooklyn, has been in the same location in Windsor Terrace since 1933. It was the very first bar to open in New York after Prohibition. The writer Pete … [Read more...] about The Last Irish Saloon
The Bronx
Photo Album: Tales of New York
I have no interest in Ancestry.com or tracing my roots. I know most of my DNA and it’s all Irish on my mom’s side. Her father, the son of a Ballylongford, County Kerry, farmer, was named Tom Keane. He emigrated to America sometime around 1900 – it’s believed he had to hightail it out of Ireland because of his IRA affiliation, and that doesn’t surprise me at all. Tom had crossed … [Read more...] about Photo Album: Tales of New York
Blazes Boylan
Compiled by Brian Rohan July August 1992
"Patriot Games" Controversies Arise When Paramount Pictures was putting together what it expected to be its big summer movie blockbuster, Patriot Games, the only controversies it encountered was the casting of Harrison Ford as the leading man over earlier choice Alec Baldwin, and trying to reconcile the movie's screenwriters with Tom Clancy, the author of the novel on which … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan