Irish America
Irish America
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”
Irish nurses, in fiction and in real life, shaped nursing and healthcare in the U.S. There is a moment late in J. Courtney Sullivan’s excellent 2017 novel Saints for all Occasions when “hundreds of people showed up” to a Boston Irish American wake. Among the mourners are a trio of sisters, “Peggy, Patrica and Jane, all of them nurses…two of them wore scrubs beneath their … [Read more...] about “Saints” in Scrubs
Banshees: A Friends at War Movie It is only a slight exaggeration to say that Ireland’s entire film industry seems to be involved in two big movies hitting screens in the next few months. First, there is the late October release of The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell. Written and directed by Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Irish Eye on Hollywood
Haven by Emma Donoghue It’s seventh-century Ireland. Clonmacnoise is a newish monastic settlement, with about thirty monks in residence, along with the families who work for them and an order of nuns. The monastery also offers temporary accommodation to guests who come to study or just to retreat from the world. One of these visitors, Artt, believes in harder fasting than is … [Read more...] about Fall 2022 Book Reviews
