Cathleen Black loves a challenge. These days, the president of I Hearst Magazines is launching three books almost simultaneously. The third issue of Tina Brown's Talk magazine has just hit the stands. CosmoGIRL!, Cosmopolitan's little sister, is being test marketed, and Oprah's magazine is due out in the spring."Oh, I love what I'm doing," laughs Black, "but I think I must have … [Read more...] about The 100 Most Influential Irish Americans in Business: The Queen of Hearst
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A Late Encounter with the Enemy
Few things are sadder than a missed opportunity. The story of the San Patricios, the Irish emigrants and their comrades of other ethnic groups who fought for Mexico during the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846-48, is rich and underexplored dramatic material. Complex and stirring issues of loyalty and heroism resound throughout the saga of the Saint Patrick's Battalion, which consisted … [Read more...] about A Late Encounter with the Enemy
Flatley’s Feet of Flames
The fastest feet in dance, Michael Flatley, has officially come out of retirement to launch a new turbo-charged dance show, Feet of Flames, which will be seen in the USA in October of next year.Flatley chose a quaint 14th-century castle in Germany as the venue for the launch of his new show, set to open in March near Frankfurt. In front of a few hundred journalists, cameramen … [Read more...] about Flatley’s Feet of Flames
Archie’s Irish “Family” –
50 Years Later
TV legend Norman Lear had heard it before."That face screams Irish!”Lear was on the set of a new TV sitcom he was writing and producing, about a working-class family in Queens, New York.
The star of the show – with the working title "All in the Family" – was a New York City-born Irish American actor named John Carroll O'Connor, who played a narrow-minded union guy named Archie … [Read more...] about Archie’s Irish “Family” –
50 Years Later
New England’s Irish “Witch”
By Mike Tubridy
Goody Ann Glover was hanged as a witch on November 16, 1688. Could it have been that it was because she was a Catholic whose first language was Irish?Had one not known the dour Puritans of this New England town better, one might have thought they were celebrating a holiday but, in fact, they had come out to witness the hanging of a witch. From jail to the gallows they followed … [Read more...] about New England’s Irish “Witch”