Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: How a love for the Guards made a Chicago cop out of Mayo emigrant Jarlath
Irish cops are the modern-day equivalent to our ancient mythological Irish warriors. Jarlath Heveran is Detective Sgt for the Forest Park Police, a...
October 06, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: Irish Fest is back with President Bill at the helm
Who speaks for the Irish community of Chicago? Are the potatoes in this stew more vocal than the carrots or the chunks of meat? Hard to say. The Ir...
September 18, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: Galway girl who is toast of the Windy City
Caught up with my favorite bartender from back in the day for lunch the other day. She’s a blonde bombshell as well as delightful company and a cha...
August 23, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Billy Lawless, The Irish Oak
Back in 2006 I was walking down Michigan Avenue in Chicago and bumped into my old friend Billy Lawless. We had met years earlier when I wrote a sto...
August 11, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: "Darlin’ girl from Clare" to lead Irish tour
Musical history buffs have fiercely debated over the last hundred years as to who was the original “Darlin’ Girl from Clare” epitomized in the deli...
June 26, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: Irish Radio's Benefit Lady
When I was a kid I loved listening to The Irish Hour on the radio and hearing the Irish ladies announce the benefits in a high pitched brogue, “We’...
May 03, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Calling Irish-American filmmakers of 2023!
This September we will celebrate our ninth year of The Annual Irish American Movie Hooley at Wilmette Theatre just outside Chicago. This film festi...
April 17, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: The Irish builder shaping Windy City skyline
Mike Meagher is President of McHugh Construction, and one of those responsible for most of the iconic buildings that make up our Chicago skyline, i...
April 06, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
News
CHICAGO CALLING: Hometown hero who has the 'plumb' job at Windy City St Patrick's parade
“The plumber protects the health of our nation.” Albert Einstein 1954. Hizzoner Mayor Richard J. Daley asked his childhood friend Stephen Bailey, B...
March 07, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: Áine's beating the ancestral drum, from Tyrone to Tinley Park!
Fans of “Derry Girls”, the hilarious TV show out of the North of Ireland that ran for years with the wacky antics of a group of Catholic school gir...
February 13, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Ink in his veins - Jim O'Shea's fight for the front page
Jim O’Shea is a Quixotic inspiration, even more so because he is a septuagenarian. A long-time Managing Editor at The Chicago Tribune and later the...
January 17, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Alamo Duke Lynch - Remember HIS battle!
In retrospect, it’s easy to see the hand of God working in our lives. James “Duke” Lynch grew up in St. Philip Neri parish in Chicago. He earned th...
January 05, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Calling Irish-American filmmakers of 2023!
