Celebrate Irish Heritage at Yankee Stadium in July when the Yankees take on the Seattle MarinersIrish America is excited to share that Irish Heritage will once again be celebrated at Yankee Stadium this season. The Yankees will play the Seattle Mariners from Tuesday, July 8th, to Thursday, July 10th, for a three-night home stand at the famed stadium with tickets available for … [Read more...] about New York Yankees Irish Heritage 2025
Sports Archives
The Heroes of ’47
By Keith J. Kelly, Daily News journalist & son-in-law of Kerry football great Eddie Walsh.
September / October 1997
The 50th anniversary of the All-Ireland Football Final, played in New York. It's been fifty years since County Cavan pulled a stunning upset victory against County Kerry at the Polo Grounds in New York City, in the only All-Ireland Gaelic Football Championship ever played outside of Ireland. Back on September 14, 1947, the local press in New York seemed not to know what to … [Read more...] about The Heroes of ’47
“The Good Sport”
In this excerpt from his memoir The Good Sport, Kevin White takes us on his journey as an Irish Catholic kid growing up in “blue-collar” Amityville on Long Island while scrambling to help his parents make ends meet, to the position of “the best of the best” among intercollegiate athletic directors of his generation.Navigating the winding roads, with endless rotaries, up to … [Read more...] about “The Good Sport”
Lady Mary Peters: a champion of sport and community
By Ray Cavanaugh
Consisting of high jump, hurdles, long jump, shot put and running, the women's pentathlon was likely the best all-around measure of female athleticism. It is not much of a logical leap to conclude that the winner of the Olympic women's pentathlon (which has since added two events to become a heptathlon) was the most physically able woman on the planet. Out of roughly 2 billion … [Read more...] about Lady Mary Peters: a champion of sport and community
Charles Riley: Jesse Owens’ ‘Irish Father’
By Chuck Leddy
March/April 1997
The fascinating relationship between Coach Charles Riley and his pupil, the legendary, Jesse Owens, is an engrossing human interest story about a gentle, selfless, Irish American school teacher who became a second father to a disadvantaged Black adolescent. From completely different backgrounds, Owens and Riley grew to love and respect each other at a time of overt racial … [Read more...] about Charles Riley: Jesse Owens’ ‘Irish Father’