The Sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald
On the 35th Anniversary of that sad day when 29 sailors lost their lives, new developments shed light on the sinking of the...
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In This Issue
The Photo Historian of Ireland: Sean Sexton
Take an aerial view of a dreary road in Walthamstow, a soulless part of the East End of London, and you will easily spot which house Sean Sexton lives in. For there, nestled among the rows of...
MoreThe First Word: A Window From the Past
One of the more difficult tasks I’ve undertaken as your editor was making a selection from Sean Sexton’s vast collection of photographs to showcase in this issue. Of his 20,000 Irish photographs,...
MorePortraits of Irish Writers in Boston
Over the past several centuries, a number of Irish artists have produced compelling portraits of Irish writers in painting, sculpture and photography, and now for the first time, those collected...
MoreThe McNulty Family Show Boat Sails Again
One of the most popular entertainment groups from the 1920s to the 1960s, Annie ‘Ma’ McNulty and her children Eileen and Peter have largely been forgotten, but that may change soon. Known as...
MoreFirst Rose of Tralee of Indian Descent
From August 20th to the 24th, 100,000 visitors gathered in Tralee, Co. Kerry to watch 32 Roses vie in friendly competition in the 2010 Rose of Tralee Festival. The Roses came from as close as Dublin...
MoreA Hero Remembered:Michael Lynch
The spirit of a New York hero lives on in his family. Nine years ago, in the months following the September 11th attacks, the Lynch family from the Bronx, New York, made a commendable and remarkable...
MoreThose We Lost
Recent Passings in the Irish American Community Harold Connolly 1931-2010 Harold Connolly, who won the gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, died in Maryland on August 19. He...
MoreThe Sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald
On the 35th Anniversary of that sad day when 29 sailors lost their lives, new developments shed light on the sinking of the “Mighty Fitz.” The legend lives on from Chippewa on down of...
MoreCivilization: Then and Now
Fifteen years ago in March 1995, historian and author Thomas Cahill published How The Irish Saved Civilization, the first of his seven-volume Hinges of History series. A national phenomenon, the book...
MoreBrian Dennehy’s Journey into Eugene O’Neill
Brian Dennehy, who is being honored with the 2010 Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award, speaks with Aliah O’Neill. If Brian Dennehy says the Irish can do no wrong, we should probably be...
MoreA Lasting Legacy: Sean O’Casey and the Abbey Theater
It is likely that no other theatre in the English-speaking world is more identified with an individual playwright, and owes more to that playwright, than the Abbey Theatre does to Sean O’Casey...
MoreSlainte!: Blow Winds, Blow!
Memory is a slippery thing. Mine works like a photo album that randomly opens to a moment in time then snaps shut and reopens on another page. Storms have left some of the most permanent...
MoreHibernia
A Hero Remembered:Michael Lynch
The spirit of a New York hero lives on in his family. Nine years ago, in the months following the...
Those We Lost
Recent Passings in the Irish American Community Harold Connolly 1931-2010 Harold Connolly, who won...
First Rose of Tralee of Indian Descent
From August 20th to the 24th, 100,000 visitors gathered in Tralee, Co. Kerry to watch 32 Roses vie...
Portraits of Irish Writers in Boston
Over the past several centuries, a number of Irish artists have produced compelling portraits of...