Irish America magazine - June/July '05 issue: NASA - Eileen Collins, Gerry Adams, John Duddy, The Irish Wolfhound, Maeve Brennan, Gerard McSorley - Omagh, Irish Gangsters, The Bachelor - Charlie O'Connell, Deanne Fitzmaurice, Mary Pat Kelly

Letters
Maureen & The Pipers - The Irish Lover - Dowd Tells It Like It Is - Where’s Regis? - Sinn Féin in The News.  more...

News From Ireland
Mayo Gas Terminal Provokes Concern - Report Highlights Change in Ireland’s Population - GAA Opens Up Croke Park - Judge Questions
‘Colombia Three’ Verdict.  more...

O' Flaherty
O’Flaherty (also Flaherty) ancestors have been documented since the time of Christ. One of the first Irish historians, Roderick O’Flaherty, recorded their history in Ogyia, published in London in 1685, in which he said they originated from Scythia and came to Ireland with a traveler called Milesius.  more...

The Irish Scrubwoman
In the days when “No Irish Need Apply,” my maternal grandmother, Margaret McCabe Ackerson, was lucky to find work scrubbing office floors to support her five children.  more...

Celtic White Gold
Riddle: I am everywhere, but I am difficult to obtain. When I am wet, I am invisible. When I am dry, you can hold me in your hand. I can fertilize or sterilize. I preserve, and I destroy. I am found in water, but I make you thirsty. I am a rock, but you consume me. Too much of me will kill you. Without me you will die. I am a paradox, a mystery.  more...