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Iconic photo shot 80 years ago today still intrigues (VIDEO) (IrishCentral)

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:17:25 PDT

Eighty years ago today, an intrepid photographer created the iconic image of eleven ironworkers, casually dangling their feet hundreds of feet above 5th Avenue while breaking for lunch on an exposed steel beam they had likely riveted into the framework of the rising 30 Rockefeller Center Many, if not most, of these rugged individuals were almost certainly Irish AmericansAnd despite the fact that the builders anticipated one laborer's death for every ten floors constructed, the men on the beam were happy to be high in the sky when about a third of their fellow citizens down below were out of work in Depression-era New YorkIrish Filmmaker Seán Ó Cualáin is among the many who have fallen under this picture's spell, investing much of his past five years exploring it in a nearly finished documentary READ MORE

Anglo Irish Bank wants Peter Darragh Quinn extradited on perjury charge (IrishCentral)

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:25:55 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

The former Anglo Irish Bank is to apply to have Peter Darragh Quinn extradited from Northern Ireland to face his jail sentence in the Republic.

A day in pictures with Colm Tóibín, Séamus Blake, Peter Quinn, and Maura Mulligan (IrishCentral)

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:25:16 PST

I had a wonderful day yesterday Firstly, I visited with Séamus Blake, the host of WFUV's Míle Fáilte, and then I attended Colm Tóibín's book signing for Brooklyn at Ireland House My meeting with Séamus was transformative and informative--what a great mind He is a highly respected scholar of Irish literature, and it was a conversation I can not wait to continue READ MORE