By Kathy McGee Burns Almost a year ago I started a series on Heroes. It consisted of Heroes whom I personally admire. A hero is a person who is idealized for courage and noble qualities. A Hero can be portrayed… Continue Reading
By Peter Makem The first crash to have happened at the village of Cliften in County Galway was over a hundred years ago when John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first ever crossing of the Atlantic by air on… Continue Reading
By Thom Nickels It’s not that long a ride from New Jersey’s PATCO line to Camden’s Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Camden, the forgotten city, the city of Walt Whitman, Campbell’s Soup and RCA Victor, a city that by all accounts… Continue Reading
‘A Farmer’s Son Who Talked Like One’ By Msgr. Francis A. Carbine A quarter of a century ago, December 10, 1995, Seamus Heaney addressed the international audience attending the Nobel Prize Awards in Stockholm, Sweden. The Poet recalled that, as… Continue Reading
By Bob Gessler President, Board of Directors, Irish Memorial The members of the Irish Memorial Board and I are saddened by Glenna’s passing. The Irish Memorial had an incredible team of artists; the evocative landscape by Pauline Hurley-Kurtz, the beautiful… Continue Reading
(Photo above: William Cullina — executive director of the Morris Arboretum) By Marita Krivda Poxon The Morris Arboretum, a Victorian 92-acre landscaped, public garden replete with rare plants and many of the region’s oldest trees, is the jewel in the… Continue Reading
(photos above: Mary Gordon, Jay McInerney, and Colm Toibin) By Sabina Clarke In 1991 when I was promoting Inherit the Wind starring Jason Miller and Malachy McCourt in a City Hall courtroom, I interviewed Jason for The Catholic Standard &… Continue Reading
By Thom Nickels Whether you call people who are in the United States illegally ‘illegal aliens’ or ‘undocumented immigrants’ doesn’t matter much when you consider the by now infamous case of Keith Byrne, who came to the United States in… Continue Reading
By Thom Nickels (Photo above) Fitzpatrick family: eight children, six spouses and twenty-four grandchildren at family vacation in Vermont, 2006 Where do the people featured on the cover earlier Irish Edition go? Jim Fitzpatrick of Bucks County was featured on… Continue Reading
By Katharine Gilbert Dedicated in 2003, The Irish Memorial was constructed to commemorate the sesquicentennial of An Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger, and to recognize the contributions of the Irish to the growth of this City, State and Nation. It… Continue Reading