By Tom Deignan
A new documentary about the short life and powerful work of Irish American literary giant Flannery O’Connor has just been released and is available for streaming. Entitled “Flannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia,” the 97-minute film premiered on PBS on March 23. Directed by Mark Bosco and Elizabeth Coffman, the film comes at a fascinating time. … [Read more...] about Flannery O’Connor:
The Storied Life of
the Writer from Georgia
Tom Deignan
Flannery O’Connor:
James Nesbitt: “Why I Love
Where I Come From”
By Tom Deignan
Irish actor James Nesbitt stars in a new Northern Ireland crime thriller called Bloodlands, which begins streaming this week on AcornTV.
Nesbitt - whose credits also include Bloody Sunday, The Hobbit trilogy, Danny Boyle’s Millions, and Waking Ned Devine - spoke to Irish America on Zoom this week, about the new show, his accomplished career, and the love he … [Read more...] about James Nesbitt: “Why I Love
Where I Come From”
Archie’s Irish “Family” –
50 Years Later
TV legend Norman Lear had heard it before.
"That face screams Irish!”
Lear was on the set of a new TV sitcom he was writing and producing, about a working-class family in Queens, New York.
The star of the show – with the working title "All in the Family" – was a New York City-born Irish American actor named John Carroll O'Connor, who played a narrow-minded union guy … [Read more...] about Archie’s Irish “Family” –
50 Years Later
Warrior for Truth
By Tom Deignan His name was Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan. A son of Irish immigrants, he was born at the height of the Great Depression and raised on a farm in Massachusetts. By the time “Neil” Sheehan died earlier this month, at the age of 84, he’d won an armful of literary awards, and played a key role in altering the course of U.S. history, as depicted in Hollywood films … [Read more...] about Warrior for Truth
Understanding the 25th Amendment and Impeachment
By Tom Deignan
For five decades, John Feerick has done his best to make sure America can deal with things at their worst. If you read the headlines this week, you saw angry debates about what to do in the wake of protests-turned-riots in the nation’s capital. Ultimately, the House of Representatives voted – for the second time – to impeach president Donald Trump, though only after Vice … [Read more...] about Understanding the 25th Amendment and Impeachment