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Writer, journalist, editor – and born in Ireland -- Cahir O’Doherty was educated at Yale University and has worked as an arts editor and feature journalist for The Irish Voice 2007. Irish arts, culture, music and politics are his abiding passions. He hopes you’ll be a regular “commenter” on his blog!
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Posted by CahirO at 9/9/2009 10:31 PM EDT
May 17, 1910. Alton, Illinois. These boys are all working in the Illinois Glass Company. The smallest boy is Frank Dwyer, from 1009 East Sixth Street, who says he has been working there three months. Joe Dwyer (his brother) has been working there over two years. Image culled from  Shorpy, a remarkable photo blog. CLICK ... Read More »
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Posted by CahirO at 9/4/2009 1:32 PM EDT
New York City detective Mary Agnes Shanley pulls a pistol out of her handbag. Shanley shows what awaits a pickpocket. She had more than a thousand career arrests. Photo circa 1937. Image culled from  Shorpy, a remarkable photo blog. ... Read More »
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Posted by CahirO at 8/20/2009 12:20 PM EDT
I went to the cinema to this weekend. I write that as if it was something remarkable, and the truth is, for me it's becoming so. You see in the last few years I have felt less and less inclined to actually visit a cinema to watch the first release of a new feature film for a good reason: the epic stupidity.
 
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Posted by CahirO at 7/20/2009 12:31 AM EDT
Like many people I never met Frank McCourt. I don’t think I was ever even in the same room with him (which is unusual, in my line of work I’ve met almost every contemporary Irish writer), but somehow I feel like I know him, because his writing is so vivid, and so deeply felt.  He was, as they say, a very ... Read More »
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Posted by CahirO at 7/6/2009 3:19 PM EDT
This is a portrait of a woman who has just received a free ticket to Michael Jackson's memorial service at the Staples Center. She looks like she thinks she's going to a free Michael Jackson concert. Can you think of any other recent funeral services where participants were photographed reacting as though they had purchased ... Read More »
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Posted by CahirO at 7/2/2009 5:42 PM EDT
The squabble over Michael Jackson's will reminds me of something my Irish father once told me: every Irish story begins or ends with an inheritance. Next week I'll be writing about some remarkable Irish family squabbles over will's and inheritances that I've watched from the sidelines.  In the meantime, if you have any ... Read More »
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Posted by CahirO at 6/26/2009 6:51 PM EDT
Today in Dublin, just as most people were galloping out of their offices as the clocks struck five, a fairly momentous announcement came down the pike, without fanfare.
 
Republic of Ireland Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern finally published the long languishing Civil Partnership Bill, which gives Irish ... Read More »
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Posted by CahirO at 6/14/2009 10:54 PM EDT
 
People born before 1980 are old enough to have seen glimpses of the epic dysfunction that characterized ideas about discipline in the Irish Catholic educational system, but even a glimpse was unforgettable. Although I was a schoolboy in the years after corporal punishment became illegal, the principal of my ... Read More »
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Posted by CahirO at 5/7/2009 12:43 PM EDT
Last night bellowing Fox News anchorman Sean Hannity broadcast a spot that lambasted President Obama for ordering Dijon mustard with his hamburger earlier this week. Because we all know what that means. French Mustard = homosexual elitist! 
You can actually see how bad things have gotten for the Republican party, ... Read More »
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Posted by CahirO at 4/3/2009 5:47 PM EDT
 
The Pope says Nein Danke to condoms (he’s German, after all) but the International Women’s Health Coalition says their new prophylactics, featuring an image of Pope Benedict raising his hands in protest, are “selling like hotcakes in France as a means of protesting the Pope’s recent ... Read More »
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