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St. Patrick's Day Memories: Peter Quinn
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St. Patrick's Day Memories: Peter Quinn
A cold, wet afternoon in the early 1950s. My brother and I were on the reviewing stand with our father. We stood in the fold of his overcoat, prote...
St. Patrick's Day Memories: Karl Scully
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St. Patrick's Day Memories: Karl Scully
Spending St. Patrick's Day in Dublin a couple of years ago. It snowed during the parade, and snow in Dublin is a rare occurrence, which made the da...
St. Patrick's Day Memories: Ciaran Staunton
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St. Patrick's Day Memories: Ciaran Staunton
Marching on Fifth Avenue with my children, Rory and Kathleen. Have you ever marched in the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade? If so, what grou...
St. Patrick's Day Memories: Jane Treacy
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St. Patrick's Day Memories: Jane Treacy
My favorite St. Patrick's Day memory was presenting a Connemara rosary bracelet on QVC that was inspired by one owned by my Irish grandmother. Have...
St. Patrick's Day Memories: Pauline Turley
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St. Patrick's Day Memories: Pauline Turley
St Patrick's Day is one of our busiest times of year at the Irish Arts Center, so I have lots of great memories. Opening plays such as "The Kings o...
St. Patrick's Day Memories: Ronan Tynan
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St. Patrick's Day Memories: Ronan Tynan
My favorite one is when myself and Tom my brother walked in the parade in Tipperary dressed as two famous hurlers. I was Ollie Walshe, the Kilkenne...
St. Patrick's Day memories
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St. Patrick's Day memories
Some regard March 17 as a holy day of obligation - with those obligations being: first, attend Mass and second, march in the parade. To others, it'...
Lenihan: it would have been like Iceland
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Lenihan: it would have been like Iceland
Speaking at the annual dinner of the Irish Taxation Institute, Lenihan said the government's plan for economic recovery involved restoring order to...
On guard
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On guard
This was especially the case in the Denny's affair in which the restaurant chain made light of the Great Hunger in a planned television advertising...
Thank you
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Thank you
This is no can of beans; no hill of beans either because, and we are acutely aware of this, we are writing about people and their lives and the way...
A 'river' runs through the world
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A 'river' runs through the world
"The expectations were to run for 21 performances in Dublin," Doherty told the Irish Echo in a recent phone interview. "At that time, we had invest...
Duet debut is absolutely stunning
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Duet debut is absolutely stunning
Not since her last studio album with Solas in 1998, "The Words That Remain," and perhaps not since her first, dazzling solo debut in 1997, "Songlin...

 

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