Patricia Harty was honored at the St. Patrick’s Day festivities in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and decided that if there is a place called Irish America, this could be it.

 (This article, on the legend of the 57 Irish railroad workers buried in a common grave in Pennsylvania, was published in Irish America magazine: June/July issue 2004)   William Watson never believed in ghosts. But the legend of 57 Irish railroad workers buried in a common grave has haunted the

DUNQUIN, Co. Kerry - Mike Kearney is 87 years old, yet looks 20 years younger. He lives in Springfield, Massa-chusetts nowadays, by all accounts an ordinary but yet extraordinary man.