Background: Farley is an editorial assistant at our sister publication Irish America magazine.  He is also studying for a master’s in Irish and Irish American studies at New York University.

Irish America magazine will celebrate the 27th Annual Business 100 at an award ceremony and gala luncheon on December 5th at the Metropolitan Club of New York. Click here for information on reserving space at the event or placing a corporate or congratulatory message to our honorees in the keepsake edition of the Business 100. The annual event recognizes the best and brightest Irish and Irish-American leaders representing some of the most innovative and influential companies and corporations in the world.

As Britain hosts the Summer Olympic Games in London, we look back on the first great modern Olympic confrontation between the United States – most of whose top athletes were Irish – and Britain, which took place in London in 1908. Notably, they were the last Olympic Games at which the judging committee was made up entirely of people from the host country.

Concern Worldwide US has recognized Dr Anita Sands, Head of Change Leadership at UBS Wealth Management Americas, with the 2012 Women of Concern Award for her outstanding achievements as a business leader and advocate for women.

The Wexford town that claims John F Kennedy as one of its own is to host Ireland’s first official Fourth of July celebration.

George Clooney Photo Gallery

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My beautiful Aunt Anna Falls came to America from County Tyrone, circa 1925, at age 16. My mother, Liz Falls, who was ten years older, had been here for a few years and sent for her. There were thirteen Falls siblings, six sisters and seven brothers. All of the sisters came to the U.S., as did three of the brothers, around WWI.

The surname Ruane comes from the old Gaelic Ó Ruadain, meaning the descendant of the red one, originally derived from the Gaelic ruadh. The pre-medieval clan stems from Ui Maine, an ancient territory that was made up of mid-Galway and South Roscommon, and Ui FIachrach, an ancient area of Mayo, Sligo, and Southern Galway. The name, variously recorded as Rowan, Ruan, O’Rowan, O’Ruan, Rogan, O’Rogan, Ryan, and Rouine, is eminent in the West of Ireland, specifically of Counties Cork, Kerry, Galway, Clare, and Limerick. Those of the O Ruadhain name range from notable mathematicians and officers to emigrants from the Famine.

Hugh Carey

That which we know as All Hallows Eve actually began as a harvest festival several millennia ago in Ireland. Though the evening’s popular colors are black and orange, they might as well be Forty Shades of Green, for the customs of the celebration are Irish as the shamrock.

How to Tune a Fish • Beoga

Let us now praise the Irish Repertory Theater, New York, and congratulate founders Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director, and Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Director, as they receive the 2011 Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish American Writers and Artists. The award is given annually to “an Irish American writer or artist who has created a body of work that places them among the great artists and entertainers of all time.” Charlotte and Ciarán join two previous honorees, acclaimed author William Kennedy and iconic actor Brian Dennehy.

We took the winding road west from Aclair,
arrived at where we thought the turnoff should be,
the boreen so overgrown you’d hardly know it had ever
    been the way.
We waded down through the uncut field, down the steep
    hillside to the wild valley below.
Thankfully, the cottage still stood,
looking much as it did when I saw it last, forty years ago.

For sixty years, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann – Irish Musicians Association – has been spreading the gospel of traditional Irish music all over the world, setting up over 400 community-based branches, including 44 in North America.

Honoring the Past

In the ten years since the attacks on September 11, 2001, memorials both big and small have been built throughout the United States and across the globe. The most immediate ones were impromptu – garlands draped on a parked car it became clear no one would claim, notes and photographs taped to fences and walls around New York City, candles placed outside of Ladder Company fire houses.

Michael Lynch
Laying the foundation for peace