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 Katharine Gilbert As we see on a daily basis the statistics of the covid-19 pandemic, we know the virus has impacted all segments of our society. We hear constantly of this new normal but that definition is ever changing… Continue Reading
Compiled and Edited by Sabina Clarke MacDara O’Conaola manager at MacDara Music is a native of the Aran Island of Inishere. In his 2006 album The Love Token he sings a hauntingly beautiful song composed by the blind poet Raftery.… Continue Reading
The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton…An Investigation By Hugh Turley and David Martin McCabe Publishing Hyattsville, Maryland 2018 By Sabina Clarke The most intriguing and suspicious character in the mystery surrounding the death of Thomas Merton in 1968, at the International… 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
Compiled and Edited by Sabina Clarke I dabbled in poetry from the age of 15 when at 19 I came across a Federico Garcia Lorca poem ‘The Weeping’ translated by Kenneth Rexroth. It was unlike anything I had ever read.… Continue Reading
By Maurice Fitzpatrick The global impact of the killing of George Floyd spread to Ireland with protesters asserting that black lives matter in front of the U.S. embassy in Dublin. Similarly, the position of minorities in Ireland has come into… Continue Reading
By Peter Makem Over fifty years ago a statue was erected in Newry in honour of the Irish patriot John Mitchel (1815-1875) by some local politicians and leaders. A Newry GAA club around that time was named in his honor… 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 Thom Nickels “Up in the air” is an apt description of the situation when it comes to the opening of Philadelphia’s restaurants and bars after the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. For Fergie Carey, the owner of four restaurant/bars… Continue Reading