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Sidewalks with Tom Deignan
The Great Irish New Yorkers
YOU might think New Yorkers would be fed up with these billionaire mogul types, given that they are the poster boys for the economic turmoil we are falling deeper and deeper into.
Go Ahead! Drown Your Sorrows!
THE Emerald Inn is a cozy Irish pub with a white stone front on 69th Street and Columbus Avenue in Manhattan. It has been there since the 1940s, though it apparently will not make it to the 2010s.
The Battle for the 21st Century
WHEN she was growing up in Lexington, Massachusetts, Meghan O’Sullivan did not do her homework quite like all of the other kids. In second grade, when other kids might have been writing about their favorite color, O’Sullivan did a report about the Pa
The Worst of Times?
EDMUND Lynch was born in Baltimore, but relocated to New York City as generations of Irish American dreamers have been doing for roughly a century and a half.
Putting Teen Pregnancy in Focus
WHEN vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin shocked the world and announced that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant, Erin Patrice O’Brien had a unique perspective on the issue.
He Ain’t Just Talking Trash
FRANK O’Keefe -– by day, a New York City Sanitation superintendent, whose parents came to the Bronx from Ireland — recalled an event when he was asked to do a bit of his stand up comedy routine.
The Irish American Spy Ring
IMAGINE George Clooney parachuting into Tbilisi, Georgia, as hostile Russian tanks invaded the former Soviet republic earlier this month. Or Brad Pitt gathering intelligence in Afghanistan, to insure the resurgent Taliban’s defeat.
Catholic Civil War Rages On
THIS past week’s episode of the excellent AMC cable TV series Mad Men, set among advertising executives in the early 1960s, featured a new character, a handsome young Irish American priest named Father Gill.
A New Declaration of Dependence
LONG-planned efforts to establish an Irish exchange program at St. Bonaventure University in upstate New York are closer to becoming a reality.
No Mercy for Irish Gangster
HE’S already in federal prison. But the charges just keep piling up for Brooklyn Irish gangster Edmund Boyle.
More to Bloomsday than a Book
BY now, Bloomsday in America has become a grand annual event for literary revelry. This past Monday, June 16, from Dublin to Denver, there were readings –- often fueled by pints — that lasted hours, all in the name of marking the famous date on which
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