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← Older posts Newer posts →A Monumental Cleric: The Building of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC | Irish Voice
April 7, 2014Cahir O’Doherty March 16,2014 09:01 PM The life story of Archbishop John J. Hughes is every bit as impressive as the most enduring legacy he left us with, America’s most iconic cathedral, St. Patrick’s on Fifth Avenue. Born near Aughnacloy … Read More
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April 7, 2014Facing the harbor and Staten Island, and across from Battery Park, Watson House is one of the very few colonial buildings still standing in the City of New York. The front columns built from ship masts were expressive of … Read More
Posted in news | Comments Off on The Irish Mission at Watson House: Reopened After Hurrican SandyAmazing Grace unites traditional divides in Donegal
October 7, 2013by Turlough McConnell Buncrana, jewel of the picturesqueInishowenPeninsula, has seen its fair share of historic gatherings on the shores of Lough Swilly. From being the departure point of the Flight of the Earls to the captureportofTheobold Wolfe Tonenearly two centuries … Read More
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August 18, 2013Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) and the Emigrants of the Red Star Line Growing up in the docklands of Antwerp in the late nineteenth century, Eugene Van Mieghem watched the comings and goings on the Red Star Line from his parents’ … Read More
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June 9, 20135,000 Irish Americans gather to help Rockaway recover from Hurricane Sandy – An Irish festival in a suffering parish brings the community back together again Rockaway Beach: Close to 5,000 Irish Americans came together this weekend to help a shattered Catholic congregation in … Read More
Posted in news | Comments Off on An Irish festival in a suffering parish brings the community back together again.Dublin: a literary heritage
March 30, 2013A tribute to Ireland’s writers is tranformed into the largest international literary award in history By Turlough McConnell Dublin is a city of words. More precisely, it is a city of wordsmiths, of men and women whose work uplifts everyday … Read More
Posted in news | Comments Off on Dublin: a literary heritageA Hallowed Place
March 30, 2013Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art By Turlough McConnell There is something of common race instinct in the work of all original Irish writers today, and it can hardly be absent in the sister art. – Sir Hugh Lane True … Read More
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March 30, 2013On St. Patrick’s Day, everyone is Irish. But what about the rest of the year? Twenty-two million Americans — 7.2% of the population — say their “primary ancestry” is Irish, according to the Census’s American Community Survey. Another 13.5 million … Read More
Posted in news | Comments Off on America’s Most Irish TownsIreland’s Great Hunger Museum
March 30, 2013Quinnipiac Univeristy, Hamden, Connecticut, USA ighm.nfshost.com by, Meredith Meagher In his painting Departure, Padraic depicts an apocalyptic human procession trudging across a blighted and bloodies potato field, the emaciated dead lying beneath the feet of the mourners, the living marching … Read More
Posted in news | Comments Off on Ireland’s Great Hunger MuseumThe Guide Exhibition Catalog
March 21, 2013The museum juxtaposes paintings and sculptures in ways that begin to reinterpret this human tragedy. The historians, curators and designers of this exhibition thought carefully about what you, the visitor, would experience in these galleries. The purpose of this guide … Read More
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