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Hanzard sings with passion,  grit of great Irish balladeers
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Hanzard sings with passion, grit of great Irish balladeers
Once upon a time a musician from Dublin dropped out of school to busk on the streets of his city. The next few chapters of his story are full of gr...
Scott prefers ‘free-thinking,  free-moving’ internationals
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Scott prefers ‘free-thinking, free-moving’ internationals
Michael Fassbender says it was his portrayal of Bobby Sands – the Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer, who led the 1981 hunger strike in a ...
World-class faculty aids Catskills’ success
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World-class faculty aids Catskills’ success
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Kearns’s ‘Wilderness’ finds poetry  in concrete
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Kearns’s ‘Wilderness’ finds poetry in concrete
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Shilelagh fans lay down the Law
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Shilelagh fans lay down the Law
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Hometown heroes  to star in Irish 2000
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Hometown heroes to star in Irish 2000
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Teetotalers are ‘very Clare and very melodic’
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Teetotalers are ‘very Clare and very melodic’
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Remembering Irish who fought with Mexico
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Remembering Irish who fought with Mexico
Todd Pate began Tuesday night’s Irish American Writers & Artists’ Salon at the Cell reading an excerpt from his “non-fiction novel” in progress, “M...
Different types of vetting for different types of folks
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Different types of vetting for different types of folks
This time four years ago, I got into a conversation with an officer of the armed forces about the presidential election. He was as mainstream as th...
Solus to screen ‘Black and Green’
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Solus to screen ‘Black and Green’
The rarely seen 1983 film “The Black and the Green” will be featured in a program of screenings this weekend at the Anthology Film Archives in New ...
Mulligan found courage to change her life, twice
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Mulligan found courage to change her life, twice
[caption id="attachment_71770" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Maura Mulligan"][/caption] Even before it was officially launched at the Ir...
Frank McCourt Memorial Lecture
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Frank McCourt Memorial Lecture
The Irish American Studies Committee of the United Federation of Teachers will host its inaugural Frank McCourt Lecture on Thursday, May 31, at 5 p...

 

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