Those We Lost Archive
David Trimble will rightfully go down in history as a courageous leader, irrespective of how …
Ever since we learned the shocking news on Wednesday last that Mick Moloney had suddenly …
Sean Kelly (1940 – 2022)
What can you say about someone who’s read Finnegan’s Wake—twice—then fearlessly …
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Carroll O’Connor
He called his wife “Dingbat.” He called his daughter a “weepy Nellie atheist.” Puerto Ricans “spics”; Jews “yids.” He was terrified of African Americans, homosexuals, feminists and evolutionists. But most […]
Passings
John Joseph Moakley Irish America lost a skilled and big-hearted leader with the death on May 28 of Massachusetts Congressman John Joseph Moakley, the South Boston Representative raised in a […]
Those We Lost: Al McGuire
On January 26 the sports and television world lost one of its true champions. Known as “the James Joyce of the airwaves,” sportscaster Al McGuire passed away in his Milwaukee […]
Steve Allen (1921 – 2000)
If the stars are twinkling a bit more lately, it’s because one of Earth’s brightest has taken his place in their midst. On November 1, Steve Allen passed away in […]
News from Ireland: Ulster Unionists Lose Party Leader
Pro-Agreement and anti-Agreement Unionists were united recently at the funeral of Sir Josias Cunningham, a leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, the largest Unionist party in Northern Ireland. Cunningham was […]