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MIAD Designer Brings Green-Tinged
Insight to Irish Fest
By Elizabeth Altman
Richie Murry, this year’s winner of Irish Fest’s poster competition,
studies illustration at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD).
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Nova Scotia Artists To Perform
At Irish Fest
By Elizabeth Altman
Music Nova Scotia (MNS), a nonprofit organization based in Halifax,
is sending seven musical ensembles to perform at Milwaukee Irish Fest this
year. The group, which works to fund local talent as they perform and integrate
into the international market. [More] |
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There's Always More at the
Moore Street Market
By Elizabeth Altman
This year’s Irish Fest signals the return of Irish retailers to Milwaukee.
The Moore Street Market will once again feature a slate of products rich
in arts and culture. Among the vendors coming to showcase them are Irish
natives Joannes Berkery and Jeff Fitzpatrick Adams. They specialize in
Irish Turf Peat Incense and Celtic art, respectively. The market area is
one of several sales areas on the sprawling festival grounds. [More] |
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Rocky Start Evolves to
Love on Stage
By Elizabeth Altman
Husband and wife Doug Johnson and Aine McMenamin create an Irish force
to be reckoned with throughout Milwaukee. Both play integral roles within
the Irish community. [More] |
Ireland’s
President Mary McAleese Visits Montana
Special to The Irish American Post
The people of Butte, Montana have been waiting a long, long time. The
last time an Irish leader came to this very Irish city was when Eamon DeValera
visited in 1919. On May 17, President Mary McAleese was greeted with a
western welcome that she acknowledged as warm and open.. [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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Irish
Novels, Histories Make for Swell Summer Reading
By Martin Russell
The numbers of marvelous Irish and Celtic-themed books making their
way deskside this past year are as plentiful as the garden’s zucchini.
And just as delicious in their own way. The following reads are some of
the best culled from evergrowing stacks. [More]
New Faces
at ICHC Will Keep Center Moving Forward
By Elizabeth Altman
This year marks a new era of leadership for the Irish Community and
Heritage Center in the form of recently appointed director Kristine Carrigg
Pluskota and board president Karen Prendergast. [More]
400
Years Of Wicklow Songs And Music
By Mattie Lennon
County Wicklow inspired John Millington Synge, gave refuge to freedom
fighters, welcomed lovers to it's hills and valleys and continues to provide
tranquility, peace and relaxation for its many visitors. (Advertisement)
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Five-Time
Novelist Has Two-Continent Spirit
By Maureen Doll
Australia and Ireland have plenty in common: island status, international
cricket teams, lots of sheep. They also share a national treasure in the
form of Monica Mary McInerney—a five-time novelist with enough spirit for
two continents, at least. [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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A Bit
'o Irish Is Enough for Mad City Leprechaun
By Maureen Katherine Doll
He may only be a bit Irish, but there is a definite twinkle in Joe
Herr’s eye as speaks of work, leisure and life as a leprechaun. Yes, a
leprechaun, Wisconsin variety. Sipping beer at Madison’s Union Terrace,
Herr candidly recalls the paths. [More]
The Emigrant’s Letter
By Mattie Lennon
It has been said that Ireland has controlled its population growth
by three measures: celibacy, late marriages, and emigration. The first
two were facts of life but not featured much in song. Emigration, on the
other hand, provided a fertile field for the ballad-writer.
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Trad Music Index Finds Way
Into Computer World
By Maureen Doll
"The only source of knowledge is experience," said Albert Einstein.
Something of this sentiment, years and contexts away, can be found in a
Web site known as the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index (ITMTI). It is
a long title for a simple concept: Irish music, like much of life, can
only be learned through experience. [More]
Music
New Crop of Summer Sounds to Listen Irish Tune Fans [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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Peering
into the Irish Past Takes Hard Work, Enthusiasm
By Elizabeth Altman
Normally housed within the walls of the Irish Cultural and Heritage
Center, the Irish Emigration Library (IEL) recently ventured to the Shorewood
Public Library for the monthly meeting of the Irish Genealogical Society
of Wisconsin.
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Shell
Shockers Honored by Northern Ireland Managerial Legend
By Stephen Rea
Shell Shockers Head Coach Kenny Farrell returned to New Orleans at
the end of May with a message of support from the elite of international
soccer to sports fans in the storm-battered city. Farrell was invited to
a Chicago training session held by the Northern Ireland national team who
were on a two-match US tour. [More]
What
is a Poet?
By Mattie Lennon
What is a poet? And how do you know one? Dan Paddy Andy O' Sullivan
once, doubting the credentials of a would-be-rhymer, said; "He hasn't
the arse of a poet." According to Patrick Kavanagh; " A poet is
not one of the people.....a poet is an institution." [More]
True Hospitality Shines
Through in Co. Wicklow
By Ted Crowley
Katmandu, Kilmacanogue and Bourg-Madame are much the same thing; gateways
to great mountains.
The phone rang. I snapped, "Who in the hell is it now!?"
I was doing a lively piece on the solid merits of bricks in the construction
of public conveniences. Loos are the big news in Greystones these times.
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Intrigue
Leads to Romance When It Comes To Irish Language
By Maureen Doll
"It intrigued me," says Dineen Grow, and thus began what was to be
a lifelong romance with the Irish language, arts and generally all things
Celtic.
As an undergraduate studying history and political science at University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Grow found herself drawn in by the imagery of the
Irish language. [More]
Marquette’s
O’Leary Speaks His Jesuit Mind
By Bridget Thoreson
The Jesuit philosophy of being a "person for others" describes the
life of 73-year-old James Joseph O’Leary. Known as J.J., Fr. O., or Fr.
James to his various students and friends, O’Leary has been a member of
the Society of Jesus since 1952. O’Leary was a sophomore at Marquette University
in Milwaukee, Wis., and a month short of 21 when he decided to try the
priesthood. [More]
For
Paula
By Ted Crowley
The Great War had Paula’s great-grandparents marry in haste in 1916.
Two weeks later, the trenches of Flanders parted them forever. Brief though
their union had been, that great-grandmother gave birth to a daughter,
who, in her turn, bore Paula’s mother. Paula was born after her father
had vanished without trace. [More]
Leahy Tells All: Out With
the Telly, In With the Music
By George Houde
Their parents threw out the television set and filled the family living
room with musical instruments. That would have included violins — fiddles
in Lakefield, Ontario — guitars, drums, and anything else that would be
used to produce Irish music and its related genres. Toss in a piano. [More]
Like
Old Love, Plane Cannot Be Forgotten
By Ted Crowley
Anticyclonic, high pressure and rising. Warm humid air over Newcastle.
Visibility 300 metres. Wind speed zero. The sea, calm as spilt milk. A
haze, bordering on fog, out beyond the red buoy, shrouds the horizon. Stifling,
torpid, nothing flying; neither bird nor plane nor windsock. [More]
Desperately
Seeking Gabriel
By Dr. Andrea Grunert
I can hardly believe it: I am in an airplane on my way to New York.
I try to leave behind me the unpleasant meetings with the defenders of
the dogma, those scientists whose tunnel vision does not allow another
method than their own and no place for imagination. [More]
Candidate
Recalls Irish Ancestors in Call for Immigration Reform
By Beth Jamnik
America’s history is inextricably tied to the history of Irish immigrants.
The Potato Famine of 1845 brought two million Irish to America in 10 years.
They contributed to building the railroads, working farms and mining, activities
that helped build today’s America. [More] |
