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December / January 2002

Those Whom We Lost

An injured fireman joins a comrade's funeral in Queens, New York; Photo - Peter Foley.

They were busboys and bankers, grandmothers and newlyweds, firefighters, soldiers, tourists and priests. More than 6,000 of them died at their desks, or running down stairs, or clearing the way for...

“With liberty and justice for all.” –Pledge of Allegiance ℘℘℘ This may be the most difficult editorial that I have written since the creation of the magazine 16 years ago. It is...

Gerry Adams with veteran IRA man Joe Cahill after recommending to the IRA that they should start to decommission their arms.

An historic breakthrough was made in the Northern Ireland peace process at the end of October when the first IRA arms were put permanently beyond use in a move monitored by the International...

Northern Secretary John Reid names three loyalist groups violating ceasefires.

The Northern Secretary John Reid announced recently that he considered the ceasefires of three loyalist groups to be over. The actions of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Loyalist...

Ireland’s national airline, Aer Lingus, has been pulled back from the brink of bankruptcy by a deal hammered out between the Irish government and the European Union transport authorities at the...

A Catholic school student and her mother make their way to Holy Cross Roman Catholic school under a heavy police and British Army presence in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2001. Protestants in the bitterly divided north Belfast neighborhood of Ardoyne hurled rocks, bricks, bottles and even flower pots at the heavily girded officers protecting the girls as they arrived for school. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

North Belfast, Oct. 23 – Loyalist protestors who have spent the last eight weeks blocking Catholic children from entering their school were threatened with legal action if they do not call off...

The family of a Derry man who died in 1969 three months after being savagely beaten in his home by the RUC have welcomed a move by the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan which...

Taoisearch Bernie Ahern and Tanaiste Mary Harney with members of the Irish Cabinet sign the book of condolences in the US Embassy in Dublin three days after the terrorist attacks.

Thousands of people queued for hours in front of the American Embassy in Ballsbridge, Dublin, waiting patiently to sign one of the many books of condolences to be presented to the U.S. government in...

Ireland is facing its worst tourism slump in more than ten years as a result of the attacks on the U.S. and the foot and mouth crisis which hit earlier in the year. Tourism Minister Jim McDaid...

Collier Wimmer, aged 9, performs in front of her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to raise funds for the victims of the September 11 tragedy.

On September 4 Collier Wimmer of Winston-Salem, North Carolina turned nine. On September 11 she was in Disneyworld to celebrate her and her little brother’s birthdays. At 8:42 a.m., 2,000 miles...

Maura Muligan (center) with friends Peggy and Pat, at the candle light ceremony at Union Square on the night of September 13.

Everyone knows where they were on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, when the horrific news broke. I was in my classroom on West 89th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues in New York City. I was...

After seven years, actress/model/producer Elizabeth Hurley will be sharing the commercial spotlight of Estee Lauder with another gorgeous face. The Irish eyes of Carolyn Murphy will be promoting...

Last month “America: A Tribute to Heroes,” the telethon featuring just about everyone in the entertainment industry, raised more than $150 million for relief efforts in New York. But many...

Rosie O'Donnell welcomes Brian Connolly of AVON to "The Rosie O'Donnell Show". The show has teamed up with the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade for Breast Cancer Awareness month during October 2001.

In October Avon announced that it would donate the largest single corporate foundation gift ever made to the breast cancer cause – an unprecedented $50 million. Announced at the first-ever Avon...

On November 14, Town Hall, New York City will be lit up with stars of the Abbey Theater and RTE (Ireland’s national television station) as the premiere of John B. Keane’s play Moll takes...

On September 21, Irish musician Tom Carroll belted out “America the Beautiful” and kicked off an evening of tunes and airs to benefit the N.Y. Firefighters Association. The event was...

Chieftain Paddy Moloney plays the tin whistle at Ground zero in memory of those who were lost.

“Will you hold my hand?” asked Lauren Murphy as she braced herself to greet her husband’s mourners. Lauren was speaking to Paddy Moloney, founder of The Chieftains, the Grammy...

Elizabeth Frances Martin talks to artist Elizabeth O’Reilly. ℘℘℘ “At first, it was hard for me to paint back in Ireland. Once you have left a place, it can be painful to return. It...

“…We could see them [the Taliban soldiers] setting fire to houses on the hills around the village. We escaped before they captured our village. There were a lot of families, all running...

With the tragedy of September 11 there were smaller cultural casualties too. Set to launch the dynamic mixed media works in a show entitled “re:Sources/in:Sights” at Axel-Rabin gallery on...

Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition, Margie McHugh has build a coalition of more than 150 immigrant rights group to promote action at the local, state and federal levels on a...

Enter any bookstore, be it mom and pop or chain retailer, and there are sure to be stacks upon stacks of coffee table books with Irish photographs. But now comes one so lovely it seems more suited...

How many hours did you spend learning your catechism? Could you still answer your questions and recite your prayers in Irish? For those of you who could use a review, or who just miss An Teagasc...

Renowned broadcast journalist, Maria Shriver is know to millions of people who can’t even stay up to watch the late news; it’s past their bedtime. The best-selling author of What’s...

Hat designer and IA covergirl Marie Galvin joined the 7th Anniversary Gen Art’s Fresh Faces in Fashion show presented by POWERade in New York and Los Angeles in October (host committee included...

Award-winning host for Ireland’s best Anchor of a News Magazine Show, Siobhan Cleary is bringing Health Diary to U.S. audiences this fall. Airing on the New York area’s channel...

The Irish Immigration Center in Boston is having its annual fundraising awards luncheon on November 20 at the Boston Copley Mariot Hotel. This ear’s winner of The Solas Award will be former...

Brothers Paul and Conor Murphy who continue tradition of a family business.

The Murphy family business, which originated in 1939 with Margaret Murphy of Ballybofey, Co. Donegal, selling hand-embroidered linen, is now a major retailer on the world-wide web with over 50 items...

Fire Chaplain Mychal Judge arrived just as bodies were falling like missiles from the sky. Few in those last precious moments thought the Twin Towers would actually collapse, which is why so many...

The New York Fire Department suffered harrowing losses on September 11. Pete Hamill writes on the men, women and the history of this fine institution. ℘℘℘ We would see them on summer...

Philadelphia - Mary Logue Campbelll Magee and her children in 1895.

The Irish Diaspora is the outworking of two forms of colonialism, those of Mother England and Mother Church. I have been interested since boyhood in what was then known not as the Diaspora, but as...

Brian and his father, Bernie Rohan, at Croke Park, 1981.

Brian Rohan visits Croke Park and finds it utterly changed, except for the heartbreak. ℘℘℘ Twenty years ago, it seemed only politicians and priests had plastic molded seats. Twenty years ago,...

The Grand Dame of the Big Band era is still moving hearts. ℘℘℘ The houselights in the expensive supper club on New York’s East Side slowly began to dim one evening last spring and...

Anthony Borrows stars as Liam, a seven-year-old Irish boy suffering mutely.

Los Angeles Times film reviewer Kenneth Turan wryly observed that Liam, director Stephen Frears’s British film about an Irish family in 1930s Liverpool, “does a better job of re-creating...

Paddy and his family on the steps of the old family cottage – from the left Paddy's father, his sister Mary and her son, Paddy and his cousin Phyllis.

In my father’s town, Carndonagh, County Donegal, Ireland, market day still goes on in a muddy field, behind “the diamond,” the town center, a ritual preceding memory. I walked down...

Nick Kent, Artistic Director of South London's Tricycle Theatre.

Nicolas Kent, the man behind the Tricycle, the uniquely innovative theater in Kilburn and launching-pad for many of Ireland’s most successful plays, is interviewed by Marilyn Cole...

The name Delaney comes from the Irish O’Dubhshlaine. Its earliest anglicized form is O’Dulany with a broad `a.’ Delane is another variant (the O’ has been long since dropped)....

President Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy attend the opening of Mr. President at the National Theater, Washington, D.C., 1962

Young people today know John F. Kennedy primarily for being assassinated and for his presumed dalliance with Marilyn Monroe. And that’s a shame, because he meant something far different to an...

A sampling of the latest Irish books on offer. ℘℘℘ RECOMMENDED The scope of Tim Pat Coogan’s latest book Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora is like nothing he’s...

The traditional Christmas roast actually stems from Roman, pagan and early Christian practices that have merged into today's yearly feasts.

Christmas is one of those words that immediately brings thoughts to mind. First, and foremost in these troubled times, is the hope for peace on earth. Hard on the heels of our heartfelt sentiments...

My mother was an outsider, having grown up in the Colonies – India and Jamaica, owing to the fact that her father, though Irish, was a doctor in the British Army. She married my father, a Tipperary...

The Cranberries (left to right): Noel Hogan, Dolores O'Riordan, Michael Hogan and Fergal Lawler

The Cranberries performed to a small audience at the Bowery Ballroom in downtown Manhattan on August 22 to promote their new CD Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Less than a month later New York would be...

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