Irish America
Irish America
The Irish Roots of Yellowstone One of the surprise hits of TV’s streaming era is the Kevin Costner neo-Western Yellowstone. Now, fans of the show will be getting a look at the Dutton clan’s origin story –which features an Irish immigrant in a central role. The new Paramount TV adventure series, entitled 1923, stars show biz legends Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, the … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Irish Eye on Hollywood
Ronan Ryan, co-founder and president of IEX, helped revolutionize the way stocks are purchased and traded, and now he has another goal in mind. As he looks back now, on the near-decade since Flash Boys’ release, Ronan Ryan says, “I feel like we’ve been running on a treadmill at speed ten for the last ten years.” But that hard work has paid off. “We’ve done remarkably well,” … [Read more...] about Looking Beyond Tech and Finance
Having spent decades writing about crooks and killers, what seedy corner of America’s immigrant underworld could best-selling author TJ English explore next? Jazz, of course! OK, this might seem like a strange fit. In books like The Westies and Where the Bodies are Buried, English took a close look at ruthless Irish American gangsters from Hell’s Kitchen to South Boston. Then … [Read more...] about An Interview with T. J English
The Northwell Health Nurse Choir skyrocketed to fame last year on America's Got Talent. Tom Deignan Finds the Irish Connection. It is the late 1970s, and an Irish American from Queens is working at a pub that regularly features the musical stylings of Tommy Mulvihill and his band. And the crowd gets so lively at times that they join in on the singing – as does … [Read more...] about The Choir That Inspires
Irish Americans Confront U.S. Nursing Shortage Dr. Linda Flynn knows all too well that the COVID pandemic placed a tremendous strain on nursing staffs across the U.S. “There was so much burnout,” explains Flynn, a Washington D.C.-area native, who now serves as dean of the School of Nursing at Rutgers University. “There’s only so much trauma, and death and dying (nurses) … [Read more...] about “It Really Is a Crisis”
