Ray O'Hanlon

Ray O’Hanlon is Editor of the Irish Echo. A graduate of University College Dublin, he has been a journalist for more than four decades and is a published author, his latest book being “Unintended Consequences: The Story Of Irish Immigration To The U.S. And How America’s Door Was Closed To The Irish” (www.MerrionPress.ie).

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Being Irish, And Being In Good Company
News
Being Irish, And Being In Good Company
It's December and I am in, well, august company. That would be one hundred others who contributed to the book "Being Irish, 101 views on Irish Iden...
December 22, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
EDITORIAL: A Viral Grinch At Christmas
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Viral Grinch At Christmas
Not too long ago there was an expectation that Christmas 2021 would be more "normal" than Christmas 2020. And in significant ways it will be as, un...
December 22, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
EDITORIAL: All We Want.... EDITORIAL: All We Want....
As the song line goes, "all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth." If only it was something so simple on the eve of Christmas, 2021. A new ve...
December 15, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
EDITORIAL: Unfortunate Tenement Timing
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Unfortunate Tenement Timing
The story appeared in the New York Times early in June. The Tenement Museum on Manhattan's Lower East Side, like all institutions open to the publi...
December 08, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
Irish American Heroes of Pearl Harbor Irish American Heroes of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, an event that changed the course of world history, took place eighty years ago today. What makes Pearl Harbor so differ...
December 07, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
Aer Lingus Launches Services To Manchester Aer Lingus Launches Services To Manchester
It will be a first in more ways than one. A first Aer Lingus flight from JFK to Manchester, England. A first time that passengers on a transatlanti...
December 01, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
EDITORIAL: Reimagining Immigration EDITORIAL: Reimagining Immigration
There was a most interesting report on the front page of the New York Times last week headed: "Contending With the Pandemic, Wealthy Nations Wage G...
December 01, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
EDITORIAL: A Battle On Multiple Fronts
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Battle On Multiple Fronts
They don't have Thanksgiving in Ireland, at least not officially. But they do, somehow or another, have "Black Friday." Further proof - if it is at...
November 24, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
EDITORIAL: Hot News Or Hot Air?
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Hot News Or Hot Air?
So what are we to make of the results of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow? Well, make of it what you will because it is possible to draw any...
November 17, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
Irish American Labor Coalition Marks Four Decades Irish American Labor Coalition Marks Four Decades
The four words in the acronym hint at the endurance and success. Irish, American, Labor, Coalition. The first three words are descriptive. The four...
November 16, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
Leahy To Take Leave of U.S. Senate Leahy To Take Leave of U.S. Senate
He has not been the kind of obvious go-to Irish American guy that the likes of Senator Edward Kennedy was in former years. But Senator Patrick Leah...
November 15, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
Tom McGrath Is A Hard Man To Keep Up With Tom McGrath Is A Hard Man To Keep Up With
Tom McGrath’s a Hard Man to Keep Up With It’s been hard keeping up with Tom McGrath. Even from behind a desk. As many readers are aware, Tom is a r...
November 03, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon

 

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