He’s been with the Irish Voice since Day One, and his weekly column about life in the west of Ireland has been a creative and colorful escape for our beloved CORMAC MacCONNELL.

Ridley Scott is in talks to direct Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Cormac McCarthy’s script “The Counceler”

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What's in a name?There was a debate here recently about all the implications of being a Paddy or a Mick on either side of the Atlantic It was interestingFor what it is, worth I made certain that none of my three sons would bear that burden Accordingly they are called Cuan and Cormac Og and Dara READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/IrishVoice/blogs/irish-voice-letters-to-the-editor/zip-it-cormac-124079149.html http://www.irishcentral.com/IrishVoice/blogs/irish-voice-letters-to-the-editor/zip-it-cormac-124079149.html Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:20:13 PDT By: HE’S at it again.  Cormac MacConnell, writing from 3,000 miles away, never a resident of the U.S. (as far as I know) yet still pontificating on Sarah Palin.

READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/IrishVoice/blogs/irish-voice-letters-to-the-editor/wake-up-cormac-124079139.html http://www.irishcentral.com/IrishVoice/blogs/irish-voice-letters-to-the-editor/wake-up-cormac-124079139.html Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:20:13 PDT By: THE only reason Cormac MacConnell's column about Sarah Palin in last week’s issue would "get him into hot water" becomes obvious in his third paragraph wherein he utilizes The Almighty in a way that is sinful before all practicing Christians.

READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/the_wests_awake/cormac-mcconnell-my-hard-won-easter-eggs-89815587.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/the_wests_awake/cormac-mcconnell-my-hard-won-easter-eggs-89815587.html Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:10:26 PDT (DEARLY beloved, please have pity on this poor divil as we approach the holy season of Easter It is his job to discover witty and whimsical elements of rural Ireland for your weekly delectationThat was joyous and easy up until 18 months ago Times have changed for the worse since READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/vanessa-williams-comes-to-the-blarney-star-to-hear-cormac-breathnach-mike-considine--ivan-goff-85416652.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/vanessa-williams-comes-to-the-blarney-star-to-hear-cormac-breathnach-mike-considine--ivan-goff-85416652.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:55:18 PST In a display of excellent taste, Vanessa Williams, was at Ireland House last Friday night to enjoy as we all did, the music of Cormac Breatnach, Mike Considine and special-guest Ivan Goff in the second concert of five in the Blarney Star series happening this year Don Meade's Blarney Star productions are landmark dates on the calendar of Irish New York, offering an intimate setting for connoisseurs of ceol in the heart of Greenwich Village and the shadow of Washington Square Park, on Fifth AvenueCormac Breatnach comes from an interesting cultural background, that has influenced his music and his philosophy of Irish traditional music At home, as a child, he was raised speaking Irish with his father, and Castillian Spanish with his mother, whom he would later discover had proud Basque roots READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/Focus-on-the-positive-44150472.html http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/Focus-on-the-positive-44150472.html Fri, 01 May 2009 08:43:01 PDT
By: CORMAC MACCONNELL

When the late, gentle Erskine Childers was our president I was covering some event in Clarinbridge over which he was presiding.