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By Tom DeignanIA NewsletterMarch 9, 2024

American Mother

By Tom Deignan
IA Newsletter
March 9, 2024

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The crowd on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at Manhattan's Swift Hibernian Lounge, off The Bowery, was energetic. In the back room, Dublin-born author Colum McCann smiled and shook many hands, while also introducing Diane Foley to many of those who’d come out to launch the co-authors’ powerful new book American Mother. In a new interview with Irish America magazine, McCann confronts … [Read more...] about American Mother

Take a Visit to Carrick Mór this St. Patrick’s Day

By Patricia Harty
IA Newsletter, March 2, 2024

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From books and Aran sweaters to Barry's tea and classy T-shirts, you will find every Irish thing you need in Carrick Mór. Kristin McGowan, Irish America contributor, chats about her Irish heritage and what inspired her and her husband, Mike, to open an Irish store in the New Jersey town of Glen Rock, almost ten years ago. Tell me about your Irish heritage. What generation are … [Read more...] about Take a Visit to Carrick Mór this St. Patrick’s Day

2024 St. Patrick’s Day Proclamation and Parades

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Since 1991 the U.S. President has decreed a Proclamation for Irish-American Heritage Month and with the current President Joe Biden being a proud Irishmen that legacy continues this year. Proclamation on Irish-American Heritage Month, 2024 During Irish-American Heritage Month, we honor our Irish ancestors, all those who carry on their legacies, and the values that have always … [Read more...] about 2024 St. Patrick’s Day Proclamation and Parades

A Tale of Two Photos

By Colum McCann
IA Newsletter, March 2, 2024

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On August 9th, 2014, one of the most chillingly iconic photographs of the 21st century was published online. The memory of it still sends a pour of cold along my spine. The orange jumpsuit. The black balaclava. The line between desert and sky. The knife was held casually by the executioner’s thigh. The portent. And then – in later images taken from a video still – the eerie, … [Read more...] about A Tale of Two Photos

Lola Ridge, Poet and Anarchist

By Rosemary Rogers
IA Newsletter, March 2,2024

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“How can you help writing about something you feel intensely?”Ireland may have more poets than any other Western nation, but Lola Ridge remains in absentia on lists of Irish poets. True, most of her life was lived outside Ireland but she held her Irish heritage close, believing she was of royal Irish blood, the Reillys of Loughrea, County Galway a “very old race of kings.” She … [Read more...] about Lola Ridge, Poet and Anarchist