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Top 100 1991

Hall of Fame | America’s Colleen

By Irish America Staff

March 1991

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It’s not unusual to find Irish Americans who can recite, verbatim, scenes from The Quiet Man, the John Ford classic that has come to epitomize romantic Ireland for a generation of Irish Americans. Every year at St. Patrick's time, the movie is trotted out again on dozens of channels across the U.S. Like wine it seems to improve with age, and the image of Maureen O'Hara, the … [Read more...] about Hall of Fame | America’s Colleen

Top of the Irish: Michael J. Roarty

By John McGuire

March 1991

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Lapsing into a hushed brogue, Michael John Roarty told of the telephone call he received one day from the president of Stonehill College, a small Catholic school south of Boston."He had a very thick brogue,and he was asking that I help out the school with its fundraiser," said Roarty, who is a magical story teller. "I was flabbergasted. I had to tell him, 'Father, I don't know … [Read more...] about Top of the Irish: Michael J. Roarty