Gaelic
Park Irish Fest Set for Memorial Day Weekend
Loads of entertainment is on tap for the Chicago Gaelic Park Irish
Fest, set for Memorial Day weekend. Musicians include Big John Howell,
the Fenians, the Peelers, Seamus Kennedy, Puck Faire, Tommy Makem, Black
47 and many more.
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Life in
Belfast Just a Circus
By Jana White
Jennifer Dempsey has been juggling a lot more than just knives since
becoming a circus performer as a child. Dempsey, 37, and her four siblings
performed with the Oak View Youth Circus in Fairfax, Va., under the tutelage
of coach Jim Moyer when they were growing up. [More]
The LDF
Marches On and On...Kind Of
By Mattie Lennon
While seated on Blessington Bridge, reading the above, written by the
late Sean McCarthy, it struck me that the men of Kylebeg, Lacken and Carrig
who were prepared to defend our little country during the "Emergency" have
been air-brushed from history. Nowhere do they feature in either song or
(written) story.[More]
Irish
America Names "The Top 100 Irish Americans"
By John Mooney
Screen legend Maureen O’Hara topped Irish America magazine’s
annual "Top 100 Irish Americans" list for 2005. [More]
United
by Diversity, Not Divided by Faith
By Nick Michalski
The Ulster Project Greater Milwaukee was born in 1980 when a group
of volunteers from the Milwaukee area invited a contingent of Northern
Irish teenagers to visit in the summer. That first year was such a rousing
success that the program never looked back.[More]
Success
Clips Along for Irish Barber
By John F. O’Brien, Jr.
Good things have been happening to the Irish Barber since he first
was selected to be a part of Project Children at 12 years old. Sean Joseph
Gormley has built his success one day, and one client at a time...from
apprenticing in Lensen’s Barber Shop in Derry, Northern Ireland, at 15-
years-old to now being owner of his own thriving business — The Irish Barber,
in Rocky River, Ohio.[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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Yank Discovers
New World in North Belfast
By Kathleen Keating Elms
As a volunteer with peace and reconciliation groups in Belfast, I had
a unique opportunity to work with children on both sides of that divided
city. It was at youth center in a loyalist area of North Belfast that I
learned that kids in Protestant areas feel rejected and pushed aside as
a result of the publicity and attention focused on nationalist Catholic
neighborhoods. [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)
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The Music
Beat
Altan
Goes Atmospheric
By Ryan Bray
The grass grew a little greener outside Milwaukee’s Irish Cultural
Heritage Center in mid-April. Maybe it was the breezy, spring-like weather.
But upon approaching the door and hearing Altan’s jovial traditional Irish
music from inside, there was a sense that there was more to the air-borne
buzz than mere meteorology. Perhaps, it was something more atmospheric.
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A Dog Named
Hope, Chapter 6
By Michael Mooney
That afternoon Sister Mary called Alice Tomey long distance, to tell
her how well Hope had done her work and how exhausted she had been after.
She recognized even as she spoke that there was nothing remarkable in what
she said, nothing that Alice and Marcia hadn’t prepared her for. [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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Hard
Work, Dedication Brought Chicago Irish Center to Life
By George Houde
Tuesday and Thursday nights at the Irish American Heritage Center were
special. So were Saturdays. Those were the days when walls were patched,
floors were fixed, doors were hung and things got painted in order to turn
a rundown school building into a noble place for the appreciation of Irish
history and culture. [More]
Language,
Life and The Wee Wild One: Stories of Belfast and Beyond
By Nick Michalski
When one finds out that a writer, teacher, traveler, and generally
wise and witty human being holds an office on the campus of a nearby university,
it is usually a good idea to take advantage of the situation.[More]
What’s
the USA PATRIOT Act Doing in Belfast?
By Cindy Ellen Hill
Like Solon returning to Rome, the U.S. government has developed a post
- 9/11 penchant for making black lists. In American bureaucratic fashion,
instead of Solon’s carved-in-stone list posted in the city plaza, there
are multiple lists with multiple meanings. Juggling several lists, U. S.
diplomats can claim on one day that they’ve recognized a group as ‘terrorists’,
while being able to say with a straight face on another day that the same
group has not been officially terrorist-designated. [More]
Bartender
of Note
Tom Hemme pours hearty beverages at the Four Farthings Tavern &
Grill on Chicago’s North Side. He’s holding a Hot Irish Monk made with
Bushmill’s Irish whiskey, Frangelico, coffee, chocolate and whipped cream.
Or try his Turtle Pie with Bailey's Irish Cream, butterscotch schnapps
and hot cocoa.. [More] |
