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Those We Lost

Bronwyn Brigid FitzSimmons
(1944 – 2016)

By June Beck, Editor, Maureen O'Hara Magazine
June 13, 2016

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Bronwyn, daughter of legendary Irish actress Maureen O'Hara passed away on May 25, 2016 in Glengarriff, County Cork, Ireland. The memorial service was being held in Glengarriff on June 11th. Bronwyn was born in Los Angeles on June 30th, 1944, daughter of Maureen (O'Hara) FitzSimons Price and Will Price.  During her childhood and teen years she explored the possibility of being … [Read more...] about Bronwyn Brigid FitzSimmons
(1944 – 2016)

Those We Lost

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2016

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Recent passings in Ireland and Irish America. ℘℘℘ Daniel Joseph Berrigan, S.J. 1921 – 2016 Daniel Berrigan, activist Jesuit priest and intellectual, author, and pacifist agitator who served as inspiration for the character Father Corrigan in Colum McCann’s 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin, died in the Bronx on April 30, age 94. Daniel was born May 9, 1921 in Virginia, … [Read more...] about Those We Lost

Weekly Comment: A Year of Passages

By Irish America Staff
May 27, 2016

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Irish America looks back at those we lost over the last year, and remembers the great influence each of these people had on the American Irish experience. Cardinal Edward M. Egan 1932 – 2015 Cardinal Edward M. Egan, the former archbishop of New York, died in March of cardiac arrest at the age of 82. He led the Archdiocese of New York from 2000 to 2009, years marked by sexual … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: A Year of Passages

Those We Lost

By Irish America Staff
February / March 2016

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Rick Cluchey 1933 – 2015 On February 2, 1955, the man who would become one of Samuel Beckett’s greatest protegés, got into a car in Los Angeles with a loaded gun. Rick Cluchey robbed and accidentally shot the driver, was caught, and subsequently sentenced to life in San Quentin Prison without the possibility of parole. It was through this violent episode that he was to find his … [Read more...] about Those We Lost

Farewell to Our Beloved Maureen O’Hara

By June Parker Beck, Editor, Maureen O'Hara Magazine
December / January 2016

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I.M. Maureen FitzSimons Blair August 17, 1920 – October 24, 2015 
 Maureen O’Hara has died at the age of 95. Born on August 17, 1920 in Dublin, the legend of the silver screen passed away on October 24 at her family home in Boise, Idaho. Her family said in a statement: “It is with a sad heart that we share the news that Maureen O’Hara passed away today in her sleep of natural … [Read more...] about Farewell to Our Beloved Maureen O’Hara