The Irish in American have a lot to be proud of not least people like Michael Mahoney of Boston Scientific one of the honorees of Irish America magazine’s 50 Healthcare and Life Sciences awards.
Without the hundreds of thousands of Irish who found new lives in the Americas, and sent money back home, the scale of the disaster back home would have been unthinkable.
Irish American Catholics played a central role in early 1960s Washington. Who were these movers and shakers who were so close to Kennedy, so Hibernian in background and temperament that they came to be called “the Irish mafia”?
