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Podcasts | From Books and TV to Family and Faith, Guests Open Up About All Things Irish with host Tom Deignan

Mary Beth Keane   What is your new novel Whale Harbor (out in November) about? This book came most immediately from my own family. My dad was the second of 11 siblings, like the…

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Window on the Past | David F. Barry: The Irish ‘Shadow Catcher’

He was called the “Little Shadow Catcher” by the Indians, due to his 5’ 5” height and his miraculous ability to capture images on paper. Some whites called Barry the “Sioux Charmer,” due…

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The Geese Who Flew South

Though it is often overlooked, Louisiana played an early and important role in the story…

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Sinn Féin Surges Ahead

On election day in Northern Ireland, David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and…

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November 9, 1926

John Keyes Byrne, better known as the Irish playwright Hugh Leonard, was born in Dublin on this day in 1926. He was adopted as a young boy by the Keyes family and took their last name as his middle name. He worked as a civil servant and acted in and wrote plays for community theater on the side. His first professionally produced play was “The Big Birthday Suit” at the Abbey Theater in Dublin in 1956. As Hugh Leonard, Byrne has had three plays appear on Broadway; “The Au Pair Man” (1973), “Da” (1978), and “A Life” (1980.) “Da” was awarded with a Tony and Drama Desk Award and in 1988 it was made into a film starring Martin Sheen and Barnard Hughes.

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