‘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 Msgr. Francis A. Carbine The book, The 1916 Irish Rebellion, is a “Triumph.” Published by the University of Notre Dame Press on the centennial of the Rising, this book is a triumph of research, documentation, layout and a prose… Continue Reading
By Barrie Maguire Painting is always stressful, but painting Seamus Heaney taught me the meaning of the word. All of my previous Irish Writer paintings, eleven of them, had been of deceased giants of Irish Literature, from Joyce to Yeats,… Continue Reading
Dr. James J. Murphy Reflects on Irishness Past and Present An Interview by Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew Jim Murphy grew up in Brooklyn (Flatbush). As a child, he had a paper route, a home full of Irish songs and ballads, and a… Continue Reading