Click Here to view the entire IRED March 2013 front page. By Kristen McCann After the New Year passes, and March rolls around, Saint Patrick’s Day is here again. It is a time for the celebration of St. Patrick and his gift of Christianity to Ireland, helping Ireland to identify with the shamrock. But, somewhere [...]
By Peter Makem At the ultimate height of symbol and ritual was the deepest low of economic and social depression. When people were acclaiming the healing of the final wounds in the thousand-year-old Ireland/England saga, others were murmuring about the bankrupt country hosting the royal event. At the moment the Republic of Ireland had come [...]
By Sabina Clarke Since she was six years old and the nun took her to see the Tabernacle in church, Judy Heffernan, a good Catholic schoolgirl, a product of Catholic education and a graduate of Presentation Blessed Virgin Mary grammar school, St. Mary’s Academy and Chestnut Hill College – proclaimed to all who would listen [...]
Full Speed Ahead… By John E. McInerney and Russell W. Wylie Commodore John Barry, the founder of the U.S. Navy under the Constitution, will soon be a person of prominence at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. In January it was announced that the Academy’s Memorials Oversight Committee approved the Commodore John Barry [...]
By Sabina Clarke After 25 years as president of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, PCVB, Brooklyn native and now die-hard Philadelphian, Tom Muldoon—undoubtedly, one of the most well-liked and well-respected businessmen in the City, has retired from his post at the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, PCVB. (No surprise here, since I discovered that [...]