George Carlin Is Still Tossing Out The Good Stuff
This article originally appeared in the June / July 2006 issue of Irish America and was one of the last feature profiles...
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Remembering Bobby Sands and the Nine Other Men Who Died on Hunger Strike
On May 5, 1981, having completed 65 days on hunger strike, republican prisoner Bobby Sands died in the H-Block prison hospital at Long Kesh. By the time the prison hunger strike ended on October 3,...
MoreGeorge Carlin is Still Tossing Out the Good Stuff
Once the quintessential seventies hippie comedian, George Carlin continues to evolve and grow. In an intimate interview with T.J. ENGLISH he shares stories of his upbringing, his Irish ancestors and...
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JUNE / JULY 2006 30 George Carlin – The Interview In a rare interview, George Carlin talks to T.J. English about his life, from growing up in an Irish family in Harlem to the highs and lows of a...
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” I always keep thinking of James Connolly and the great calm and dignity that he showed right to the very end, his courage and resolve.” – Bobby Sands As I’m writing this, I can...
MoreHuge Crowds Attend 1916 Anniversary Parade
Over 100,000 people thronged into Dublin’s O’Connell Street to honor the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. In a spectacle regarded as a dress rehearsal for the Rising’s centenary in...
More191 Memorabilia Goes under Hammer
Historic artifacts and memorabilia from the 1916 Easter Rising went under the hammer at James Adam & Sons Auctioneers and Mealy’s Auctioneers in Dublin. A total of 480 collectible items drew...
MoreTralee Man Sells Business to Getty Family
Jerry Kennelly, a Tralee-born businessman, has sold his library of photographic images for $135 million to Getty Images. Kennelly set up the company for $100,000 in 1997 and bought out the interest...
MoreNovember Deadline For NI Assembly
The Irish and British governments have set November 24 as a deadline for the restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Local government from Belfast is a key element of the Good Friday Agreement,...
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GARDAÍ (Irish police) say they have no leads on the murder of Denis Donaldson, former Sinn Féin activist. Donaldson was outed as a British spy and he immediately left Belfast for Donegal. Within...
MoreDuffy Square To Get Facelift
Hidden in the shadows of a TKTS booth amidst the bright lights and flashing signs that overpower the north end of Times Square stands a statue of Father Francis Duffy – the most celebrated U.S....
More2006 Features Variety of Innovative Artists
For two weeks each summer the streets of West Ireland’s capital city, Galway, come alive with music and performances. From July 17-31, over 400 writers, artists, performers and musicians from...
MoreDuddy Wins First Title
John Duddy did not attend our Top 100 Irish-Americans of the Year event on March 16. He had a good reason – he was boxing the head off Shelby Pudwill in Madison Square Garden on the way to winning...
MoreIrish Eye on Hollywood
Three top-level Irish talents will be teaming up for a U.S. Civil War drama slated to be released later this year. Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson and Anjelica Huston will star in Seraphim Falls, a...
MorePhoto Album: Grandfather’s War Years
My grandfather, John Fay, was born in Finavarra, County Clare in 1896. The youngest of twelve children, he grew up on a farm that juts out into Galway Bay. Family lore has it that he had an almost...
MoreILIR Intensify Lobbying as Immigration Reform is Addressed in the Senate
It has been a busy few months for the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform [ILIR]. Shortly after we went to press on our Top 100 issue, well over 2,000 Irish from all over the country descended on...
MoreGeorge Carlin Is Still Tossing Out The Good Stuff
This article originally appeared in the June / July 2006 issue of Irish America and was one of the last feature profiles done of George Carlin before his death on June 22, 2008. Once the...
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New York’s Fighting 69th and Louisiana’s Tiger Brigade Celebrates Homecoming
The 245th New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade was dedicated to the Fighting 69th and Louisiana’s 256th National Guard, Tiger Brigade, which, serving together as Taskforce Wolfhound, lost 19...
MoreThe Dingle Races
The biggest of all flapper races in Ireland, Dingle attracts the best horses from all over the country, and a variety of jockeys, some as young as eleven. And they’re off! Bachelor brothers Stevie...
MoreToo Late To Stop Now
Ian Worpole ruminates on why Van is still The Man. So I get this press release along with the new CD, Pay the Devil, and it says “For 40 years Van Morrison has continued to be an important and...
MorePaddy Play Ball!
John Fitzgerald, a New Yorker, went to Ireland to play baseball. When he found out he was ineligible for the national team, he did the next best thing – he made a documentary about them....
MoreThe Irish Revolution in America
Tom Deignan explores the role that Irish America played in the Easter Rising of 1916. Ninety years ago this month, in May of 1916, over 20,000 Irish-American nationalists and their supporters flocked...
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NON-FICTION Former New Yorker writer Bill Barich is best known for his horse racing book Laughing in the Hills, published 25 years ago now. For his latest book, Barich has again written about...
MoreClean Green!
Natural Cleaning Solutions. Spring is in the air and summer is a-coming in! The clocks have been set ahead, the days are longer, and the light is brighter. But with the drapes pulled back, and...
MoreTwo Saints & A Surgeon
In the 1930s and 40s the neighborhood doctor was vital to the community. Dr. Hubert Kubel’s office was on the ground floor of a five-story-over-basement apartment house of the type with low-rise...
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The Carlin name is found in County Limerick, where they held a family seat in ancient times, as well as in the counties of Meath, Derry, Cavan, Monaghan and Tyrone. The name is derived from the...
MoreThe Law of the Irish
With St. Patrick’s Day just past, it’s only natural to reflect on the many gifts given us by Irish culture: the words of literary giants like Joyce, the lilting music of The Chieftains, the...
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Duffy Square To Get Facelift
Hidden in the shadows of a TKTS booth amidst the bright lights and flashing signs that overpower...
Duddy Wins First Title
John Duddy did not attend our Top 100 Irish-Americans of the Year event on March 16. He had a good...
2006 Features Variety of Innovative Artists
For two weeks each summer the streets of West Ireland’s capital city, Galway, come alive with...