Photog
Friends Click During Irish Internship
By Steve Hintz
If you’ve never studied abroad, you probably wanted to at some point.
During my sophomore year at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte,
I remember walking past the colorful study abroad office and dreaming of
faraway lands. Contemplating Rumi over coffee in a New Delhi deli with
some young tenderoni got to be an ongoing fantasy during my college career.
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Mike Mullins
Goes Green with St. Louis Tionol,
April 8-10
By Deric Green
Several new faces are being added to the eighth annual St. Louis Tionol
and Mississippi River Celtic Festival, April 8 – 10, 2005. Among them will
be piper and pipemaker Mickey Dunne of Limerick. Dunne is noted for playing
in a open style similar to the likes of Paddy Keenan and Johnny Doran.
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A Ghostly
Leap Back in Time
By Conor Caffrey
The Ryans’ home is their castle. But they do not live in any ordinary
castle. Former seat of the fierce O’Carroll clan, it was once the most
haunted in Ireland. The ghosts are still here. The Ryans hear them and
see their outlines or shadows on the walls; occasionally, they even feel
them brush by. But the spirits are much calmer now than in former times.
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Paddy’s
Day
By Peadar O’Dowd
The village wouldn’t be the same without John Joe. Although he didn’t
actually live in the little hamlet boasting a church, pub, shop and a few
weathered homes, John Joe always seemed to be present or just passing through.
His little adjacent farm, if you could call it that, was simply a small
field for ‘Paddy’ the donkey. [More]
Créme
Goes Irish with Seavite’s Seaweed Products
By Michele Lea Robinson
This year, the West Coast of Ireland can be found on the West Coast
of Lake Michigan. The popular Seavite line of seaweed-based body products,
arrived this February at Crème, in Whitefish Bay, Wis. Créme
is the only such outlet carrying the products in the States. [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).
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McConnell
Brings Fermanagh Music Alive Once Again
By Paul Carr
A few years ago, Cathal McConnell had the spark of an idea for a CD
of music from his native county of Fermanagh. McConnell may be known to
some Americans from his many appearances with Boys of the Lough on Garrison
Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show.
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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)
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Conghaile
Brings Years of Sean-nos Music to Milwaukee
By Elizabeth J. Cooney
As Micheál O’Conghaile celebrates two decades of success as
the founder of Cló Iar-Chonnacta (CIC), the largest Irish language
recording and publishing company in Ireland, he thinks not where he would
be without his work, but instead where his work would be without him. [More]
Irish
Fest Choir Plants the Seeds of Irish Song in Young Hearts.
By Nick Michalski
One of the central components of Milwaukee Irish Fest, and one that
audiences come back again and again to enjoy, is the music. While international,
national and regional acts perform at the fest every year, the Irish Fest
Choir is one of the fest’s homegrown gems. [More]
A Dog Named
Hope, Chapter 5
By Michael Mooney
"She dresses like us."
"But she doesn’t act like us."
At this, everyone round the dinner table tittered, remembering perhaps
the way Hope had responded to the call for evening prayer.
"She dresses like a priest."
"But she doesn’t act like a priest. Besides, she’s a girl.". [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).
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Burren
Goes Big, With New Gallery About to Open
Special to The Irish American Post
The Burren College of Art has just completed a new gallery and MFA
studio wing that includes a 6,500-square-feet building housing 20 studio
spaces and a large gallery. This makes it the largest private art space
in Ireland, built to take large pieces of work, according to Mary Hawkes-Greene,
the college president. [More]
Danú
Is Reminder That Youth Is State of Mind
By Nick Michalski
It was a blustery January Saturday as I hustled up the walk toward
Milwaukee’s Irish Cultural & Heritage Center. The historic old church
structure at 2133 W. Wisconsin Ave. — where the city’s Celtic heart now
beats — is just west of downtown near the faded opulence of the Eagles
Ballroom, a stairway to rock ‘n roll heaven. Not far away, Marquette University
Jesuits and their student charges hunker low in their rooms, well out of
the wind. [More]
Irish
Watercolors Attract Artist
Special to The Irish American Post
Irish-American landscape artist Theresa M Quirk does her cultural thing
in oil and watercolor, with a strong dose of Irishness mixed in for good
coloring and heritage. She began painting and studying art as a child with
her father, Walter D. Quirk, who motivated her to pursue art. [More]
Brennan
Finds Comedy Night Lights on in Milwaukee
By Steve Hintz
From under a large wooden door that separates
the chosen from the exposed, laughter seeps into the Comedy Café’s
waiting area . The unheated hallway is the antithesis of the club’s fiery
insides, at this point exploding with guffaws and shrieks of delight.
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‘Slainte’
Puts the Fight into the Fighting 69th
By J. Herbert Silverman
Coming up on St. Patrick’s Day, one of the more fascinating – and saddest
remembrances – is a toast which will be presented at the historic armory,
home base in Manhattan of the Fighting 69th, one of America’s oldest "classified"
military organizations. Tragically, the regiment now posted to Iraq lost
six of its soldiers several weeks ago in combat along with many injured.
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Tale
of 'Typhoid Mary' Relates Early Medical Woes
By Ed Hatton
The definition of a "Typhoid Mary" is a person who is the source from
which something undesirable spreads. It’s a term we’ve all used or read
in a newspaper or a book. But did you know that "Typhoid Mary" was a real
person? She was Mary Mallon, an Irish woman who worked as a cook in and
around New York City during the early years of the 20th century. [More]
Million
Dollar Baby’s Celtic Connections Provide Knockout Narrative Thread
By Nick Michalski
First off, Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning Million Dollar
Baby is not an Irish film, or even a film about Irish people, culture
or politics. The film deals with the aspirations and dreams of American
blue-collar, everyday people who are down, and for the most part, out.
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Cooking Irish Isn’t Just
About Corned Beef, Cabbage Anymore.
By Deserae Constantineau
"I don’t consider myself a chef," chuckles Jimmy Pandl, owner of Egan’s
on Water Street and Pandl’s in Bayside. In his wire-rimmed glasses, khakis
and white button-down shirt, Pandl looks more like a teacher than a gourmand
of the highest caliber. While Pandl may not consider himself a chef, the
students enrolled in his Gourmet Irish Cuisine Class — offered through
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education on
March 15 — may come away with a different opinion. [More] |
