Irish St. Louis Gets a Gaelic Nod
By Martin Hintz 
Joseph Charless, born in Westmeath, came to St. Louis and launched the first newspaper west of the Mississippi in 1808. St. Louis businessman Gerard B. Allen was born in Cork in 1813. Rev. Thomas O’Neil was the first Irish-born president of Saint Louis University, serving from 1862 through 1868. Pat McBride played three times for the U.S Olympic soccer team in the 1960s. [More]
 

Images of America: Irish Milwaukee
A photo survey of Milwaukee’s marvelous Gaels, past and present!
$20 at Milwaukee area bookstores, the Irish Cultural & Heritage Center, Gerry O’Brien’s European Meat Market and other fine outlets.
Or order directly from The Irish American Post..(Advertisement). [More]
 

Director O’Donnell’s Street Smarts Pay Off
By Martin Hintz
Irish film director Damien O’Donnell knows his lanes and alleys, a benefit that paid off in his most recent look at an often quirky world, Rory O’Shea Was Here. The movie, filmed in his native Dublin, features two physically-challenged young men who shuck convention and care center security to strike out on their own. [More]
 

Fighting the System from the Inside: Rory O’Shea Was Here.
By Nick Michalski
"Are you really alive?" The late Jim Morrison asked that question, and so does Rory O’Shea Was Here, the latest film by Dublin-born Damien O’Donnell. The new movie follows the life of Michael Connolly (Steven Robertson), a young man stricken with cerebral palsy. [More]
 

O’Shea Pulls Life From Big Screen
By Stephen Hintz
Have you ever been lulled into thinking that you are a victim of your circumstances…powerless to change the fate that has been handed you…content to just turn the wheels and watch as life moves all around you because you don’t feel like that living stuff is meant for you? [More]
 

Welcome to the World of Crème
Inspired by the nature and beauty of Ireland, our Naturally Irish soaps and bath salts are wrapped in pure Irish linen. (Advertisement). [More]
 

The Land of Time Enough: Driving the Emerald Isle
By Diana Hunt 
The bathtub was filled with a tangled mass of gelatinous green slime floating in the hot water. This was to be my seaweed wrap. A New York City spa it was not. I had run away from home, needing private time, a break from my routine. [More]
 

St Patrick's Parade Dinner
Please join us in celebrating the 162nd Anniversary of Milwaukee’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade as we honor the role of the Irish in the American experience. [More]
 

Irish Language Books Score Well for Two Authors
By Martin Russell
Two books of interest to Irish speakers, primarily for beginners and tyro speakers, have just been released Stateside by Dufour Editions. [More]
 

There's Love and There's Sex and There's the 46a
is a collection of short-stories, essays, articles, ballads and poems all written by bus workers and ex-busworkers. Some were produced recently on state-of-the-art word processors while others had been, evidently, written on the backs of waybills and Defect Dockets at termini many years ago. There's something for (almost) everybody in this collection. (Advertisement) [More]
 

Merrion Square Epitome of Irishness
By J. Herbert Silverman
As Ireland approaches St. Patrick’s Day, a wave of heritage programs is currently sweeping Erin with massive efforts to remind the populace of a Celtic, Norman, Viking, even English traditions in Tralee, Cork and Galway. An exemplar, Merrion Square in the heart of Dublin is one possibly of the most literary and artistic addresses in the world. [More]
 
 

Irish Fest Volunteers To help celebrate the 25th anniversary of Milwaukee Irish Fest, The Irish American Post will be running stories on some of the many volunteers who help make the world's largest Irish cultural event such a success. These features will appear in The Post over the next few months.
	Tom McKale Here Comes the Law
	Jerry McCloskey Mr. Money Man Helps Fest Secure Financial Footing

 

Mitchell Scholarship Program Approved Again
In December, 2004, for the third year in a row, when the Congress passed the Omnibus Appropriations Resolution for FY05, it included a provision recommending that the Department of State provide $500,000 to the George J. Mitchell Scholarship program. Nearly 50 Members of Congress — from both parties — supported the initiative. [More]
 

A Dog Named Hope, Chapter 4
By Michael Mooney
It’s not easy to say good-bye to a dog you’ve learned to work with and respect. But Marcia had received a favorable impression of Sister Mary and thought she could read in their brief acquaintance that the nun was an intelligent, straight forward, sensible kind of woman who would give Hope the kind of opportunity and support she needed. [More]
 

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