Vodafone Photo Awards Highlighted The Vodafone Irish Press Photographers Awards is a prestigious annual event that recognizes and rewards the art of press photography in Ireland.  It provides an opportunity to acknowledge the achievements of the Press Photographers Association of Ireland (PPAI), while showing an appreciation for the images themselves. [More]
	The Vodafone Irish Press Photographers Awards 2001 The first, second and third placed photographs in nine categories at the Vodafone Irish Press Photographers Awards 2001. [More]

 

Lone Ranger Fitzsimons Gets the Shots By Martin Hintz Award-winning photographer Brenda Fitzsimons describes herself as a "Lone Ranger," when it comes to getting that perfect shot. She's patient, staying out of the way when other photographers stampede forward. But then there is always an opening, just the right moment for a photo. Click. [More]
	Brenda Fitzsimons' Winning Portfolio Featuring the portfolio of the 2001 Vodafone Irish Press Photographer of the Year, Brenda Fitzsimons of The Irish Times. [More]

A Year Later, Shock of the Tragedy Remains
By Lori Alexander
I'd been sitting in our garden, thinking how good life was, with my new kitten twining around my ankles. It was one of those golden, late-in-the-summer days when it's easy to drift into daydreams. It was one of those days when it's even easier to put off getting up and peeling the potatoes for just another 10 minutes. I'm the only adult United States citizen living in my North Dublin village, but before the Sept. 11, 2001, I'd never felt so acutely American. [More]
 

Rising From the Rubble
By Lori Alexander
I live in Ireland, a country that knows terrorism well. Sept. 11. In my most paranoid moment, I couldn't have conceived how drastically a 24-hour period could change my feeling of security, and test my beliefs. My lackadaisical news consumption changed drastically. I no longer reserved newspapers for the leisurely Sunday browse, or watched the 10 p.m. news half asleep. [More]
 

Ireland Marks 9/11 Anniversary of Terrorist Attacks on US
In connection with the first anniversary of the terrorist outrages that took place in New York, Washington, D.C,. and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11 last year, a number of commemorative services and events have been arranged to be held tomorrow in Ireland to mark the anniversary. [More]
 

Another Bloody Sunday Brings Back More Terrible Memories
By Elaine Larkin
The shooting of 13 demonstrators in Derry in 1972 is the better-known Bloody Sunday. Nearly half a century beforehand, however, the original Bloody Sunday took place on Nov. 21, 1920. Bloody Sunday, 1920, began with the assassination of 13 undercover British intelligence agents by an IRA squad organized by Michael Collins. In reprisal, Black and Tans killed 14 people when they opened fire at random at a Dublin Tipperary football match at Croke Park. [More]
 

Mattie's Pinched as Bad Boys Go Ramblin'
By Mattie Lennon
I'm eagerly looking forward to Christmas. And looking back Dickinson-like on past Novembers; one in particular. It has been said that the first duty of a gentleman is to keep out of the hands of the police. Up to the time of writing I have carried out my gentlemanly duties, in that respect, every day of my life, with one exception. [More]
 

Collins Memorial Dedicated in Clonakilty
By Dipika Kohli
Thursday, Aug. 22 marked the 80th anniversary of the death of an Irish patriot and national hero — Michael Collins. On this day, at Emmet Square in Clonakilty, several thousand people gathered to witness the unveiling of a new monument, a bronze statue of Michael Collins. [More]
 

EU Urged to Support "Culture of Prevention"
Courtesy of the Consulate General of Ireland 
Fostering of a "culture of prevention" should be at the heart of the EU's approach to conflict, emphasized Brian Cowen, the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs.  He also underlined the central importance of Conflict Prevention as the first anniversary approached "of the terrible attacks perpetrated against the United States and its people," Cowen said in a statement released on Aug. 30 to a Regional EU Conference on Conflict Prevention in Helsingborg, Sweden.[More]
 

Goodbye, Luv, You're Going Home
By Brian Witt
I was going to report this week that Josie Nash was living in Kalamazoo, Mich., with her daughter, Nina Nash-Robertson. However, Josie died in her sleep on Aug. 24. Josie and Kit Nash helped to set Irish music and culture on it's ear here in Milwaukee after their arrival from England in the mid 1950s. Dublin natives, (or as Josie would be happy to tell you, "Clontarf, Dear, not Dublin"), the Nashs opened the Irish Castle, located on 13th and Lincoln.
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