The Brilliance of Beckett

The Brilliance of Beckett

On Wednesday, July 23, as part of Lincoln Center Festival's stunning Gate|Beckett series, an audience of some 75 Samuel Beckett devotees gathered in Lincoln Center's Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse to l ...

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Swimmers Shine in Beijing

Swimmers Shine in Beijing

Two of our Top 100 alumni, Natalie Coughlin and Kara Lynn Joyce, played major roles in the success of the U.S. women's swimming team at the Beijing Olympics. ...

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Quote Unquote

Quote Unquote

"I've heard things like, 'We don't want to send our kids back to school because we're afraid people don't like Mexicans."

Mayor Thomas O'Neill of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania speaking of the death of Luis Ramirez ...

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NYC's First Irish Theater Fest It's the biggest thing to ever hit the Irish theater scene in N

NYC's First Irish Theater Fest

It's the biggest thing to ever hit the Irish theater scene in New York, the first ever Irish theater festival held throughout the month of September at the prestigious 59 East 59th Street Theat ...

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Those We Lost

Those We Lost

Michael Joseph Daly

Michael Joseph Daly, 83, died July 25 of pancreatic cancer in his home in Fairfield, Connecticut. A lieutenant and later a captain in the Army's Third Infantry Division, he was awarded the ...

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Taoiseach's Address to Irish America

Taoiseach's Address to Irish America

On his first visit to New York as Taoiseach, Brian Cowen addressed those gathered to celebrate the Wall Street 50 at the Yacht Club, New York, on July 17. He showed his appreciation for A ...

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Galway Arts Festival

Galway Arts Festival

The 31st Galway Arts Festival, which ran from July 14-27, was another huge success for both the city and lovers of the arts. Though Ireland was soaked with enough rain to dampen the most ardent optimist ...

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Harrington Is a Major Winner

Harrington Is a Major Winner

When Irish America featured Padraig Harrington on the cover of the October/ November 2007 issue after his first win of a major at the British Open, it was to celebrate one Irishman's entry into th ...

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Convention Coverage Red and Blue With a Hint of Green

Convention Coverage: Red and Blue, With a Hint of Green

Abdon Moriarty Pallasch reports from the Democratic and Republican conventions.

Ireland was in the background at this year's Democratic and Republican National Conven ...

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Irish Eye on Hollywood Liam Cunningham is an Irish actor to look out for as fall approaches He h

Irish Eye on Hollywood

Liam Cunningham is an Irish actor to look out for as fall approaches. He has built up an impressive resume of Irish and British movies, including Ken Loach's provocative Irish Civil War Epic The Wind t ...

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