By Msgr Francis A. Carbine “For my first day attending St. John’s Primary School in Moy, County Tyrone, my mother made me a suit of soft brown fabric with a Nehru jacket. I wore short pants reaching to my knees.” … Continue Reading
By Brendan Clay The crowd arrived early on Sunday, April 24 while the weather was still cool. They gathered around the Irish Memorial, a 12-foot high bronze sculpture depicting bedraggled Irish refugees from the great starvation of the 1840s and… Continue Reading
By Norbert McDermott I was prompted to “put pen to paper,” as my dear mother would say, when I bumped into one Jane Duffin a few months ago – whom, despite me being a month-in month-out reader of the Irish… Continue Reading
By Russell W. Wylie General George Washington was desperate to provide his army encamped at Jockey Hollow in Morristown, NJ with something to boost their morale after enduring the most brutal winter on record. The men of the Continental Army… Continue Reading
Photo above: Ne Timeas: walnut ink and egg tempera on Fabriano paper. Study for student project based on decorations in Lindisfame Gospel text from Luke at Annunciation: Fear not Mary. Were you always interested in art as a young girl?… Continue Reading
Caption: (above) St. Anne Parish 170th Anniversary and Tribute to First Responders—An American flag flew from the top of the Philadelphia Fire Department Ladder Company 16 hook-and-ladder truck. By Russell W. Wylie Only a few weeks after the Continental Congress established… Continue Reading
by Msgr. Francis A. Carbine When Pope Francis speaks on the Parkway in Philadelphia during his September visit, listen carefully! You may hear traces of an Irish lilt. In fact, the future Pope studied English for three months in Milltown,… Continue Reading
Caption (above): McGregor the Irishman delivers something no other fighter can: a new audience in the nation of Ireland. By Brendan Clay I’m sitting at the bar at Tír na nÓg in center city sipping on a water and waiting… Continue Reading
Josie was born on March 28, 1930 in Manhattan, to Patrick & Margaret O’Callaghan. Her parents met in New York as immigrants from the Republic of Ireland, her father from County Monaghan and her mother from County Cavan. Josie grew… Continue Reading