by Sabina Clarke Telling Stories can be purchased on Amazon. Telling Stories is a collection of 44 interviews over the years — that appeared in the Irish Edition newspaper and other publications. Among the interviewees are Gerry Adams; Senator George… Continue Reading
By Peter Makem I remember when driving through Cooley, Co Louth a few years ago with a friend of ours, Claudine Thornton, a native of the area and who was showing us around. She suddenly told me to pull up… Continue Reading
(Photo above: The tunnel along Kelly Drive.) By Marita Krivda Poxon Ryan Heenan, current President of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick describes himself as “the youngest guy in the room” when he speaks about how he often feels when… Continue Reading
By Marita Krivda Poxon The Corson homestead located at the corner of Butler and Germantown Pikes in the heart of the Plymouth Meeting National Historic District no longer faces the prospect of being subdivided by K. Hovnanian to build 67… Continue Reading
By Peter Makem In my lifetime, Ireland has never experienced such a hot blast of summer. Not so long ago in February last, we had the Beast from the East, an arrival of frozen wind direct from Siberia which lowered… 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 Peter Makem There were 12 times in the year when the small town of Keady burst into serious life. In a tradition going back 200 years, that was the monthly Fair Day when local farmers brought their cattle and… Continue Reading
From County Mayo to Philadelphia, to San Francisco, to Waikiki, to Vladivostok, to Pearl Harbor By Susan Haggerty from the research of Margaret McMenamin–O’Byrne and Sean McMenamin, grand niece and nephew of Elizabeth McMenamin. The harvest was the worst since the Great Famine and… Continue Reading
By Barbara Nolan The box full of 2,700-year old dust was quite full, brimming with a golden-looking powdery substance. Its appearance was quite fitting, since it came from drinking vessels inside the tomb of the legendary King Midas (or perhaps… Continue Reading