Holyoke’s Irish Heart
Patricia Harty was honored at the St. Patrick’s Day festivities in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and decided that if there is a...
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In This Issue
Coco Rocha Rocks the Runway
She looks, if possible, even more modelesque in person, although this might have something to do with the high-heeled lace-up Balenciaga boots she’s wearing (along with an Urban Outfitters top,...
MoreThe First Word: Celebrating Irish Heritage in Holyoke
If there’s a connecting theme in this issue it’s the Famine: Brian Moynihan’s ancestors came over at the end of the famine, Christine Kinealy writes about the international response to the...
MoreThe World of Irish Dance
The second week of April certainly brought some confusion to Philadelphia residents as thousands of young girls in bouncy wigs and vendors with everything from Celtic t-shirts to Irish sweets...
MoreSea Fever: An Irish Surfing Odyssey
Ireland, with 3,000 miles of open Atlantic to the West, offers some of the best surf conditions in the world. Sea Fever, a documentary, covers the history of Irish surfing from the early 1960s to the...
MoreIrish Eye on Hollywood
Dublin native Colin Farrell is teaming up with Irish-American screenwriter William Monahan for a new film, which seems to be an homage to a classic. Farrell – who will be seen later this year...
MoreSisters of Charity: After All These Years
St. Patrick’s Day is always an important day for the Irish in New York and the 2009 St. Patrick’s Day Parade was a very special one for the Sisters of Charity. Not only was it the first time that...
MoreLincoln’s Watch Holds Message from Irishman
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch in March 2009, and discovered a secretly engraved message that turned an unsubstantiated family story...
MoreA Last Meeting With Beckett
ith the recent publication of the first volume of Beckett’s letters I started to recall the last time I met Beckett in Paris in 1988. We first met in April, 1985. It had been three years...
MoreHow the Irish Took Over Cable TV
It’s been 10 years now since HBO took a chance on a little drama called “The Sopranos” and changed the face of television. When “The Sopranos” hit the airwaves in 1999, no one could have...
MoreLady of the Dance
Maggie Revis, native to Putnam Valley, New York, took to the stage in Belgium this past winter for her debut as the female lead dancer in Michael Flatley’s The Lord of the Dance. Born into a family...
MoreReview of Books
Recommended Over the last decade or so, Brooklyn has gone from a byword for gritty urban life – the place where Pete Hamill and Spike Lee told their stories – to a punch line referring to the...
MoreHolyoke’s Irish Heart
Patricia Harty was honored at the St. Patrick’s Day festivities in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and decided that if there is a place called Irish America, this could be it. ℘℘℘ It its heart,...
MoreOscar Wilde on Show
An exhibition at the Morgan Library attracts Oscar Wilde enthusiasts. Expensively dressed, impeccably mannered and gifted with a voice so beguiling his contemporaries marveled at him, Oscar (Fingal...
MoreMcAllister Tug Boats
When Brian McAllister was coming of age in the 1950s all he cared about was playing basketball and chasing girls. However, over the years, he became the heart and soul of the business his Irish...
MoreSláinte!: Irish Wedding Traditions
Just when I think I have my dad all figured out, a new snippet of info comes to light, and June always finds me thinking more about him than usual. It’s Father’s Day month, his birthday was the...
MoreHibernia
Sisters of Charity: After All These Years
St. Patrick’s Day is always an important day for the Irish in New York and the 2009 St....
Irish Eye on Hollywood
Dublin native Colin Farrell is teaming up with Irish-American screenwriter William Monahan for a...
Lincoln’s Watch Holds Message from Irishman
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch in...
The World of Irish Dance
The second week of April certainly brought some confusion to Philadelphia residents as thousands of...
How the Irish Took Over Cable TV
It’s been 10 years now since HBO took a chance on a little drama called “The Sopranos” and...