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Sidewalks with Tom Deignan

A New Declaration of Dependence
LONG-planned efforts to establish an Irish exchange program at St. Bonaventure University in upstate New York are closer to becoming a reality.

No Mercy for Irish Gangster

HE’S already in federal prison. But the charges just keep piling up for Brooklyn Irish gangster Edmund Boyle.

More to Bloomsday than a Book

BY now, Bloomsday in America has become a grand annual event for literary revelry. This past Monday, June 16, from Dublin to Denver, there were readings –- often fueled by pints — that lasted hours, all in the name of marking the famous date on which

‘Conventional’ Wisdom on Immigration

CATHAL Gallagher has about three weeks left in the U.S., as you’ll read elsewhere in this issue. Gallagher was born in Donegal and spent over two decades working as a priest in Japan.

Still Searching for Bobby

IRISH-born documentary film maker Shane O’Sullivan will be in New York City this week to discuss what he believes to be the hidden conspiracy behind the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. This is just one of many events marking the 40th anniversary of t

To Denounce or Not to Denounce?

ANOTHER week, another politician asked to make a big choice on the public stage.

On Race, Irish Can’t Win

IN the gritty 1950s movie Blackboard Jungle, Glenn Ford plays a teacher trying to tame a multicultural class of tough New York City students.

Pope-Bashing and the Pulitzer

IN 2001, a poet by the name of Amiri Baraka was the poet laureate of New Jersey. In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center that year, he wrote a poem called “Somebody Blew Up America,” which hinted at certain Zionist/Jewish conspiracies re

Teaching the Pope a Lesson?

NEXT week, amidst ceremonies both solemn and celebratory, Pope Benedict XVI will arrive in the U.S. The pontiff will spend five days here, in Washington, D.C. and New York. He is scheduled to visit Ground Zero and also say mass at Yankee Stadium.

New Debate Over Old Horror

THIS past Monday, March 31, acclaimed Irish writer Joseph O’Connor gave a talk at the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The basis of the talk was a new project which he will release this summer.

Controversial Ex-Priest Guides Paterson

DO you know how you can tell it has been a crazy couple of weeks up in Albany?