Irish America

Irish America

By Rory Keohane June / July 1999

The World Irish Dance Championships

By Rory Keohane

June / July 1999

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Rory Keohane looks at the success of American female dance champions and the influence of Riverdance. A light Easter Sunday rain fell on the parishioners as they flowed from Sunday mass into the quiet streets of Ennis, a sprawling town in the western county of Clare. On this day, the local congregation played host to a score of ringlet-haired guests and their parents who … [Read more...] about The World Irish Dance Championships

The Mammy

By Kelly Candaele

April / May 1999

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Anjelica Huston looks calm and comfortable as a makeup artist applies a touch of lipstick before a midnight promotional photo shoot in Dublin, Ireland. She is up late on a drizzly Friday night completing the last few "emotional" shots on her new movie The Mammy, based on a novel of the same name by Brendan O'Carroll, a film that she is both starring in and directing. The movie … [Read more...] about The Mammy

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

By Malachy McCourt

April / May 1999

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America, or to be more precise the United States, needs logo imagery for its memories to be flashed on the screen of the mind. The name Nixon prompts a flash to an awkward man doing the victory sign; Kennedy...grace, charm and the quip; La Guardia...pudgy little man reading the "funnies" on radio. Tammany? Oh yeah, a bunch of cigar-chomping, beerswilling Micks on the take, … [Read more...] about Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

Super Bowl Shanahan

By Kieran McConnellogue

April / May 1999

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One of the most recognizable football coaches in America became an anonymous tourist last summer when he took a golf vacation in the land of his ancestors. But things might be different the next time Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan returns to Ireland. When his team won its second-straight Super Bowl on January 31, the coach's face was seen by an estimated 800 million … [Read more...] about Super Bowl Shanahan

The First Word: The Best and The Brightest 1999

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
April / May 1999

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This, the last 'Top 100' for this millennium, shows that at the turn of the century the Irish in America have reached heights of success surely unimagined by those impoverished immigrants who crossed the Atlantic to seek a new life in the last century Was it even conceivable that a group of people who were told they `need not apply' would today be the ones doing the hiring? … [Read more...] about The First Word: The Best and The Brightest 1999