Maeve Binchy Reflects on Her Career
No one tells stories like Irish writer Maeve Binchy. Humane, down-to-earth, funny, her novels have captured imaginations on...
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MoreApplications for the Paddy Clancy Memorial Scholarships are invited from students in Ireland and North America. The $1,500 scholarships are available to students interested in studying folk song,...
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MoreHow many men can say they live with four women and the only woolly mammoth in Ireland? Harris Moore can, because his home in Ventry on the western Dingle Peninsula is also the unique Prehistoric...
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MoreSotheby’s was hoping that art lovers wanting to brighten their walls might also want to give their bank accounts a spring cleaning when works of the 7th Irish Sale were viewed in New York,...
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MoreIrish Tenor Ronan Tynan and actor Milo O’Shea were just two of the Irish luminaries who turned out to celebrate the launch of Greatest Irish Americans of the 20th Century edited by our own...
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MoreIrish America magazine’s Top 100 awards ceremony. ℘℘℘ Of all our Top 100 awards ceremonies, this year’s was perhaps the most moving as we celebrated real heroes. Irish...
MoreMarriage is back in fashion. According to The Irish Voice, more Irish couples are preparing to wed than ever before. In 1999, more than 18,500 couples married in either religious or civil...
MoreEven The Fonz turned out to celebrate the Broadway opening of the hit Irish play Stones in His Pockets. And it’s no wonder, this show is a hit wherever it goes. After enjoying a run as the...
MoreAfter her surprise announcement that she will step down from her position as UN High Commissioner on Human Rights when her four-year term expires this September, Mary Robinson has now agreed to...
MorePatrons of New York watering holes such as Clancy’s, Rory Dolan’s and Barney Mac’s are seeing amazing things on the walls, and no, they haven’t had one too many....
MoreThe Adrian Flannelly Show, part of the Irish Radio Network, has expanded into new markets and extended its Saturday broadcast from two to five hours. You can now catch the show on WJUX 103.1 FM...
MoreRichard Egan, the ninety-ninth wealthiest person in America, was nominated by President Bush as the new U.S. Ambassador to Ireland. Egan, one of Irish America’s Business 100, holds an Irish...
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MorePaul Brady Oh What A World Compass Records Let’s all ponder Paul Brady’s career for a moment. The man has written songs that have been recorded by the likes of Tina Turner,...
MoreTwo years ago they were hardly known, now Séan Campion and Conleth Hill are the toast of Broadway. ℘℘℘ In a departure from the world of big-budget films and special effects, Conleth...
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MoreNo one tells stories like Irish writer Maeve Binchy. Humane, down-to-earth, funny, her novels have captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic in a way most authors only dream of. Millions...
MoreThe first original screenplay by Irish novelist Roddy Doyle is automatically a cinematic and literary event. When Brendan Met Trudy offers many quirky delights, but it is an uneven and ultimately...
MoreNON-FICTION A larger-than-life Irish American politician finally gets the treatment he deserves – praise and criticism, that is – in Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century, by Boston...
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MoreI had almost a worm’s-eye view of Bloody Sunday. I was working as a junior TV journalist covering a protest march through Derry on January 30, 1972, and like every other observer I was...
MoreThe Cusack name carries with it a fighting air. One of the most colorful examples is of one George Cusack whose parents wanted him to be a monk. He did not, so he ran away to fulfill every...
MoreCatherine Flannely was born in Porturlin, County Mayo, Ireland around 1835. She married Anthony Moran from the nearby village of Baralty. Catherine and Anthony immigrated to America in the 1860s and...
MoreIrish Tenor Ronan Tynan and actor Milo O’Shea were just two of the Irish luminaries who...
The small waterfront bungalow in Staten Island, New York that Dorothy Day occupied late in life...
Patrons of New York watering holes such as Clancy’s, Rory Dolan’s and Barney...
If political power can be judged by how an individual influences society and changes its laws,...
Irish America magazine’s Top 100 awards ceremony. ℘℘℘ Of all our Top 100 awards...
Richard Egan, the ninety-ninth wealthiest person in America, was nominated by President Bush as...
After her surprise announcement that she will step down from her position as UN High Commissioner...
The Adrian Flannelly Show, part of the Irish Radio Network, has expanded into new markets and...
Plans for a half-acre, $4.7-million Irish Hunger Memorial commemorating victims of the Great...
How many men can say they live with four women and the only woolly mammoth in Ireland? Harris...
Even The Fonz turned out to celebrate the Broadway opening of the hit Irish play Stones in His...
Sotheby’s was hoping that art lovers wanting to brighten their walls might also want to give...