Irish America magazine - June/July '08 issue: Irish soldiers in Kosovo, Faiths o’ the Irish, Ireland of a Thousand Welcomes?, Finding Home, U2 Have Gone 3D, The House that Hoban built, Straight from the bottle, Keeping it All in the Family, Holy Wells

The Billionaire who wasn't

The Billionaire Who Wasn’t by Conor O’Clery tells the story of Chuck Feeney, a young Irish-American who became rich beyond his dreams, only to give it all away through his fund Atlantic Philanthropies. The following excerpt opens just after Feeney has graduated from Cornell College in 1965 with a degree in hotel administration.

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