Mayo’s
War Dead Remembered at Peace Park
By Ryan Urban
With veterans’ solemn faces and the snapping of regimental banners
in the Irish breeze, the Mayo Memorial Peace Park, Garden of Remembrance,
was officially opened in Castlebar by Irish President Mary McAleese. [More]
Involvement Is Retired College
President’s Trademark
By Michelle Lovrine
You wouldn't normally expect to see a college president teaching a
class. She has more important things to do, right? Such as keeping the
institution from falling apart at the seams, plus raising money, managing
staff and attending meetings with other high officials. .
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From Woods Roamer to World
Traveler, Author Barbieri Touches the Soul
By Michelle Lovrine
Heather Barbieri went from a childhood of roaming the woods to roaming
the world. Whether it was climbing the 30-foot-tall trees of her youth
or adulthood galavanting from Ireland to Italy and writing about her experiences,
Barbieri has honed a blithe spirit. [More]
The
Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
Memories from Family and Friends. (Advertisement)
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Gaelic
Games and Irish Transport, For Fun Reading in the Park
By Mattie Lennon
John Cassidy is a voluntary steward in Croke
Park and as such he has witnessed spectacular victories, defeats and draws
in football, hurling and camogie. He is a Donegal man who won’t let you
forget that his county won the all-Ireland final in 1992. His day job is
as a supervisor with Dublin Bus. [More]
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New Books Form Trinity of Gripping Read About Sons, Fathers
By Mike Neville
Irish fathers are famous for inciting enmity
in at least one of their sons, and Irish sons are famous for writing about
it. Eugene O'Neil's offspring turned his gloomy memories about his ruined,
megalomaniac father into classic plays. Frank McCourt made hay of his feckless
souse of a father in Angela's Ashes. [More]
Chilling Cop Stories Grist
for Irish Author
By Meaghan Ziemba
"When I was about 6, my father read The Wind in the Willows
out loud to me, and I still remember hearing the description of the river
as 'that sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal' and thinking, WOW.
It was the first time I realized what incredible things beautiful writing
can do," recalled Irish author Tana French.. . [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)
[More]
Joyce Expert Moves on from
Humble Ancestral Roots
By Carrie Porter
Literature's ultimate snob occasionally indulges in a hearty Irish
breakfast, a luxury his grandparents might not have enjoyed. "I know I
am grandchild of Irish famine," says Sean Latham, an English professor
and James Joyce expert. Humble roots unforgotten, this snob knows from
where he sprouted..
[More]
Just ‘Say No’ to Thinking
Old
By Michelle Lovrine
May was the month for seniors in Ireland, with a special focus on their
societal participation in the face of a youth-obsessed culture. The month
saw the return of the famed Bealtaine Festival; a new study released on
age and opportunity, compiled by the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology.
[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]
Poets Corner
Free
Spirit Gonzalez Committed to the Lifelong Love: The Arts
By John Christopher Fine
Born in Dublin, Ireland, public relations guru-ess
MaureenBrigid Gonzalez’s father was Michael Carroll, an artist, landscape
painter and civil servant. Her mother, Mary Bridget, was "very beautiful
and sang like an angel with a soprano voice," according to her daughter.
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Andrew
Raymond Carroll, Dublin's Master Artist Works on Canvas
By John Christopher Fine
It is said that genetic traits for talent in
the arts are inherited. If so, MaureenBridget Gonzalez nee Carroll and
her younger brother Ray have inherited some good ones. While Maureen went
from Irish step dancing to become a featured ballerina with the Irish National
Dance Company her brother Raymond took to a palette and is considered one
of Dublin's finest artists. [More]
‘Water of Life’ Offers Scotland
Visitors a Smooth Kilted Kick
By Ryan Urban
Och, please excuse me, there certainly is more to life than sipping
an Irish whisky. Such as sampling a tumbler brimming with the Scottish
version of usige beatha ("water of life"). Tourists to Scotland wishing
to sample this marvelous beverage, albeit one with a kilted kick, can tour
several of the country’s most popular distilleries. [More]
Cape Breton Music Focus
of Lively Workshop
By Michelle Lovrine
The name "Murphy's" hangs over the front of a pub entrance with whitewashed
walls and green windowsills. It is almost like being in Ireland, except
the brown door of the pub leads nowhere and windows peer into nothing.
Elevated on a stage in front of this Celtic scene, five people in a semicircle
shuffle and kick slowly, modeling after the woman in front of them as they
learn the steps to a Cape Breton step dance. [More]
Soulful Irish Band Gets
Down with the Get Down
By Stephen Hintz
Mick Pyro is addicted to making FIYAH music. The lounge lizard front-man
for the red-hot band from Dublin, Republic of Loose, created some serious
waves on both sides of the Atlantic with his last album, "Johnny Pyro and
the Dance of Evi." He will no doubt be rocking the boat with his next compilation…let's
call it "Dublin's Rarest." [More]
Mixed Bag O’Fun Presented
In Range of Irish Tracks
By Brian Witt
Music reviews. [More]
Actors’ Green, Gaelic Blood
Serves Them Well
By Michelle Lovrine
It's an unassuming brown plaque on the corner of Water Street and Erie
Street in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward, nearly blending in with the
tawny brick behind it. The signage detailed the tragic sinking of the steamship,
The
Lady Elgin in Lake Michigan on Sept. 8, 1860, resulting in one of Lake
Michigan’s worst disasters.
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Head of Magnolia Films Debuts
Irish Film Eclipse at Los Angeles Irish Film Festival
By Stephen Hintz
Although Mr. Bowles only got to spend the first year of his life in
Belfast, his Irish roots run deep. As the head of Magnolia Pictures, the
distribution arm of Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment films,
the peripatetic Eamonn Bowles will be showing the Irish thriller Eclipse
for the first time at the second annual Irish Film Festival. [More]
Out of the Woods, the Irish
Film World Remains Busy, Busy, Busy
By James Bartlett
Movie fans across the world - certainly those with a taste for seeing
scary things on screen - will recognize the name Hammer Horror. The British
company had introduced fright-seeking viewers to Peter Cushing and Vincent
Lee, whose thrillers included Dracula, The Mummy, The Curse of Frankenstein
and
The Curse of the Werewolf in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. [More] |
