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Patricia Harty co-founded Irish America magazine in 1985, and has been its Editor-in-Chief ever since. The magazine, which famed writer Pete Hamill referred to as “one of the finest literary magazines around today,” has become a powerful vehicle of expression on a range of political, economic, social and cultural themes that are of paramount importance to the Irish in the United States. Among Harty's many interviews in the past 24 years are Sen. George Mitchell, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, basketball coach Pat Riley, Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, Wall Street guru Peter Lynch, best-selling author Pat Conroy, Hollywood legend Gregory Peck, and corporate titan Jack Welch. Harty, a native of Tipperary, Ireland, serves on the advisory board of Glucksman Ireland House, New York University's center for Irish studies. She is the author of the "Greatest Irish Americans of the 20th Century," and has contributed to several other books, including "Being Irish," and "The Irish Face in America."
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Posted by PatriciaHarty at 9/8/2009 5:42 PM EDT
Labor Day is kind of like Christmas -- people have forgotten the meaning of it. They just want the presents, the birth of Christ gets lost somewhere in the wrappings.
The significance of Labor Day gets lost too -- in the sandwiches at the beach on the last day of summer. But as you throw another hot dog on the Barbie, ... Read More »
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Posted by PatriciaHarty at 8/28/2009 6:37 PM EDT
A sailboat moves slowly down the river its canvas furled.
It's out there all on its own in the quiet of the early morning.
It's a gray day and raindrops streak my windows.
It’s fitting that it should be overcast – for we are in mourning.  
The lone sailor makes me think of Teddy ... Read More »
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Posted by PatriciaHarty at 6/5/2009 3:27 PM EDT

She held the two-year-old baby girl in her arms. The child was so light she was afraid that she would crush her or move in such a way as to press against her sores.
She had never been this close to starvation before.
Joanne from Co. Down is telling us what it is like to be a volunteer with the Irish relief ... Read More »
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Posted by PatriciaHarty at 5/15/2009 4:13 PM EDT
Could an Irish-American Stanford University law professor be the next Supreme Court Justice?
 
 
When Kathleen Sullivan, Stanford University law professor, and former dean, was asked in a 2000 interview with Elgie Gillespie  for Irish America magazine, about the possibility of following in ... Read More »
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Posted by PatriciaHarty at 5/4/2009 4:08 PM EDT
Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird has a famous Irish ancestor or two. He also has an Irish Disney connection, which means that when the movie is made – and you know there's going to be a movie – perhaps we will see it on the Disney Channel. Here’s the story:
Going on the theory that every good ... Read More »
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Posted by PatriciaHarty at 3/25/2009 1:22 PM EDT
When I was young, a visit by two Frenchmen caused great excitement in our house.
They were distant cousins – descendants of Oliver Harty who was born in Knockainey, Knocklong, County Limerick in 1746 and left for France as a lad of sixteen.
Like many young Irishmen who had lucrative careers in continental ... Read More »
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Posted by PatriciaHarty at 3/20/2009 4:40 PM EDT
Lingering signs of St. Patrick's Day -- a tapestry of John F. Kennedy in an Arabic carpet store window; a display of nylon scarves festooned with shamrocks in a wholesale shop; a bedraggled young man with green T-shirt who doesn't look like he made it home. It's Tuesday morning, March 18, but let me take you back to March ... Read More »
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Posted by PatriciaHarty at 3/19/2009 3:21 PM EDT
“The robins came - that's a sign of luck,” my cousin whispers in my ear as the men start to shovel the clay. Sure enough, I look up and see a pair of robins swoop down over the heads of those gathered and then fly off together.
It's a bright sunny day, but the temperature is below freezing and I worry that ... Read More »
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