Irish America magazine - Oct/Nov '01 issue: Martin McGuinness, Judy Garland, Joe Judge, Omagh, Frank McCourt in Haiti, Nora Barnacle, Carroll O'Connor, The Irish roots of Halloween, Searching for John Ford, Being Irish
Martin McGuiness: The
man, the myth, the minister
If it's fair to judge the effectiveness of a politician by the depth
of his opponents' dislike for him, then the Sinn Féin MP and Assemblyman
for Mid-Ulster, Martin McGuinness, must be a very effective politician
indeed. more...
(Irish
America) October/November 2001
Galileo: King of Kings
"It's enough to make one's hair stand on end. How absolutely devastating
that Britain's blue riband race has been won by a peasant from Eire"
snorted some Lord or another. more...
(Irish America) October/November 2001
Just Judy
By the time Judy Garland made her first and only concert appearance
in Dublin in July 1951, she had been an international star for more
than a decade. more...
(Irish America) October/November 2001
Being
Irish: Waking the Dead
I had never really been all that comfortable with my Irish heritage.
I've always been scared that our American society views the Irish
as a bunch of drinkers. more...
Field of Dreams
It all began with a castle. In 1987, a husband and wife from the
nearby town of Ballyvaughan purchased a 16th-century tower house,
Newtown Castle. more...
(Irish America) October/November 2001
The far side of revenge
There was a terrible silence in Omagh in the days after the bombing.
It seemed that not even birdsong could be heard.
more...
