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What’s So Funny About
Peace, Love, and Understanding

By Turlough McConnell
IA Newsletter, October 4, 2025

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Saint Patrick's Cathedral Honors NYC's Immigrants with Historic 25-Foot Mural The Cathedral's Largest Commissioned Artwork in 146 Years Brooklyn-based artist Adam Cvijanovic (pronounced TSVEE-ya-no-vich) was working in his studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard when a song from the radio stopped him in his tracks. Elvis Costello's cover of Nick Lowe's "What's So Funny About … [Read more...] about What’s So Funny About
Peace, Love, and Understanding

A Portrait of George Moore and Modern Ireland

By Turlough McConnell

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently hosted a remarkable exhibition titled “Manet/Degas.” Among the portraits of the exhibition is Édouard Manet’s portrait of Irish writer George Moore. The “Manet/Degas” exhibition brilliantly showcases the groundbreaking work that significantly influenced the trajectory of modernist painting in France. It is fascinating to note that one … [Read more...] about A Portrait of George Moore and Modern Ireland

The Last Word: Mutual Admiration

By Turlough McConnell
Spring 2023

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While it may take a village to raise a child, it took the collaboration of three governments, eight political parties, several thousand dedicated individuals, and 1.7 million voters to achieve lasting peace in Northern Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement, signed on April 10, 1998, ended the violence and political conflict in Northern Ireland that had persisted since the late … [Read more...] about The Last Word: Mutual Admiration

Passages East and West:
An Irish Indian Comes Home 

By Turlough McConnell
IA newsletter June 18, 2022

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History speaks of migration waves that flow across land and sea and create epochal change. This description can obscure the smaller, often heroic journeys of daring individuals who establish new communities and identities for themselves and for posterity. The poignant documentary ‘An Gorta Mór: Passage to India’ (also known as Boys from Vepery), written by Ian Michael and … [Read more...] about Passages East and West:
An Irish Indian Comes Home 

Ireland / France: Art & Literature

By Turlough McConnell
May 7, 2022

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Ireland’s culture once again will lead the way in Paris. For the past three years, auction houses in Ireland and around the world have been looking for new ways to bring their collections to audiences in a rapidly changing market.  In particular, they sought to take advantage of Ireland’s European Union links and minimize the red tape and customs procedures … [Read more...] about Ireland / France: Art & Literature