An Irish-Italian West Side Story
THE Westies just won’t go away. The heavily Irish American crime clam based in the West Side Manhattan neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen has long held a place in the annals of America’s mob history.
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(Irish Voice) 22 December 2004
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Are the Irish Leaving NYC for Good?
Along Katonah Avenue in Woodlawn, this once-entirely Irish strip has seen some diversification of late, with non-Irish immigrants now operating several delis, hardware stores and other businesses.
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(Irish Voice) 16 December 2004
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How Much Fight Left in Irish?
My father was neither a particularly avid football fan or particularly public about being Irish. But the guy had himself a big Notre Dame “Fighting Irish” football jacket for as long as I could remember.
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(Irish Voice) 8 December 2004
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The Rail Thing in Brooklyn
For any kid who grew up in Brooklyn, the subways were a central part of life, like it or not.
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(Irish Voice) 2 December 2004
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Breslin’s Just Getting Started
It was news that rocked the world of New York journalism. Early this month, Jimmy Breslin announced that he would be writing his last regular column for New York Newsday
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(Irish Voice) 25 November 2004
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New York’s Irish GOP Civil War
President George W. Bush’s election in the presidential race has widely been seen as a convincing victory for the Republican Party. The GOP also picked up a number of seats in the Senate, so Republicans are feeling giddy these days.
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(Irish Voice) 18 November 2004
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Sidewalks - Who Won City’s Irish Vote?
POLLSTERS, pundits and others have spent the last week endlessly analyzing the recent election returns, attempting to figure out why President George W. Bush cruised to a fairly easy electoral victory.
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(Irish Voice) 11 November 2004
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Sidewalks - Joe McCarthy’s Silent Partner
AS we emerge from one of the most bitterly contested political battles of all time, it is important to remember that the American political scene has always had its share of rancor, anger and scoundrels.
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(Irish Voice) 4 November 2004
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Sidewalks - Kerry Wins These Irish Votes
KATE Fitzgerald and Niall Mooney, both U.S. citizens currently living in Ireland, represent two different aspects of the Irish American experience.
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(Irish Voice) 28 October 2004
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Sidewalks - Did Irish Thicken Roth’s ‘Plot’?
IT is often said that people don’t read anymore. It might be added that what they do read is hardly the most challenging material. The best-seller lists all over the U.S. are stuffed with romance fluff, generic thrillers and one-sided political tracts.
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(Irish Voice) 21 October 2004
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Sidewalks - West Side Labor War
IT was 5 p.m. on a recent Saturday and Frank Ford, the manager of O’Farrell’s Restaurant and Bar at 33rd Street and Tenth Avenue, was already closing up his pub.
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(Irish Voice) 13 October 2004
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Sidewalks - The Ultimate Swing Vote
GROWING up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn as the son of a Marine-turned-NYPD beat cop, George Marlin took to politics at a very early age.
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(Irish Voice) 30 September 2004
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Sidewalks - Republicans Target Irish Catholics
THE Republican Party is making an intense push for Catholic voters in New York and across the country.
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(Irish Voice) 22 September 2004
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Sidewalks - In Search of Irish America
FEARGAL Cochrane has been thinking long and hard about New York City for the last 18 months. Unfortunately, one small detail never made it into his mind until he flew into New York earlier this month.
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(Irish Voice) 17 September 2004
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Bound by Duty, Tragedy and a Flag
THIS is a story about September 11, but not entirely. It is about firefighters, but it is also about a valiant soldier, a special flag, and an extended Irish American family who recently suffered a terrible loss.
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(Irish Voice) 8 September 2004
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New York’s KKK Convention
FOR months, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has been telling New Yorkers that the Republican National Convention, which kicks off next Monday, August 30, will be a boost for city businesses.
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(Irish Voice) 1 September 2004
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GOP Bash Could Be Boom — Or Bust
FOR months, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has been telling New Yorkers that the Republican National Convention, which kicks off next Monday, August 30, will be a boost for city businesses.
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(Irish Voice) 26 August 2004
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Nixon and the Damn Irish
ACCORDING to newly-released secret recordings, President Richard Nixon’s
secretary of state believed the events surrounding Bloody Sunday were
merely “a little embarrassing” for the British.
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(Irish Voice) 12 August 2004
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Irish Key to Bronx Race
IRISH activists and at least one elected representative may revive the famed Irish Immigration Reform Movement (IIRM) of the late 1980s.
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(Irish Voice) 28 July 2004
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The Return of the Irish Gangster
THAT was quite a fascinating combination of folks mashed together in an item on “Page Six” of the New York Post earlier this month.
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(Irish Voice) 21 July 2004
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SIDEwalks - Bronx Firefighter Goes Home Again
JACK McGee knows a thing or two about life imitating art.
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(Irish Voice) 8 July 2004
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SIDEwalks - The Revolution Next Door
WHEN it comes to revolutions or other momentous events, New Yorkers are generally interested in precise locations
as well as the big historical picture.
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(Irish Voice) 2 July 2004
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The Things He Carried
THE gravest sin any columnist can make is to make the column, on any given week, about the columnist himself.
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(Irish Voice) 16 June 2004
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The Irish “Reagan Democrats”
LAST week, the New York Post’s Fred Dicker filed a column about “yet another top aide to Governor Pataki” who “decided to cash in on his government ties and lobby state government.”
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(Irish Voice) 9 June 2004
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FDNY Nets Trip to Ireland
THE National Basketball Association finals are approaching their conclusion, with the L.A. Lakers aiming for yet another title.
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(Irish Voice) 2 June 2004
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LI Woman Reveals Priest Abuse
When Anne Keane came from Ireland to Long Island in 1965 she was a little lost.
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(Irish Voice) 26 May 2004
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Woodside Women Warned
AN ATTACKER on the loose in Queens may be targeting Irish women, but police have little information about the suspect.
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(Irish Voice) 26 May 2004
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Irish Catholic Anger Rages
THE argument among Irish Catholics over politics, sex abuse and the sacraments rage on, and is not likely to cool off anytime soon.
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(Irish Voice) 20 May 2004
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A Different Memorial Downtown
IT was one of many places in downtown Manhattan where the green, white and gold mixed with the red, white and blue.
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(Irish Voice) 6 May 2004
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O’Shaughnessy Still Making ‘Raves’
NOT many people can say they have been praised by the staid Dan Rather and the raunchy Howard Stern, the liberal saint Mario Cuomo and Republican stalwarts such as ex-president George Bush.
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(Irish Voice) 22 April 2004
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Bronx Guy Lays Down ‘Law’
YOU can see South Bronx native John Michael Bolger on NBC’s Law and Order Wednesday, April 21 at 10 p.m.
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(Irish Voice) 16 April 2004
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Inwood Irish Still Giving Support
IT’S often been said that one reason the Irish lingered around certain New York neighborhood’s for so long was because of their fierce attachment to local parish schools and churches.
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(Irish Voice) 8 April 2004
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Are Muslims the New Irish?
HAVE you heard about the brouhaha involving Long Island Congressman Peter King?
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(Irish Voice) 2 April 2004
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‘Mike Would Have Loved It’
HOW often are you going to get the likes of Donald Trump, TV talkmeisters Bill O’Reilly and Tina Brown, and a gaggle of opinionated writerly types in the same room and have them all set their egos aside.
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(Irish Voice) 25 March 2004
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Marching Through Snow, Controversy
AS far as Roger Slattery, Brian Sharkey and many other New York City Corrections Department (NYCD) Emerald Society members are concerned, they just want to get marching. In the St. Pat’s Day parade up Fifth Avenue, that is. Rain or shine. Or snow, for that matter.
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(Irish Voice) 19 March 2004
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Poignant ‘Day’ for Kelly Gang
IN America, there’s something so special about being born on the Fourth of July that famed jazzman Louis Armstrong is among the famous folk who is said to have lied about joining us that patriotic day.
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(Irish Voice) 4 March 2004
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The Irish-Jewish Problem
I ONCE heard a Bronx writer tell a story. It pains me to admit that I am not one hundred percent sure who the writer was, but the smart money is that it was Cynthia
Ozick.
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(Irish Voice) 26 Feb 2004
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A New Yorker in Famine Ireland
IRISH immigrants to New York City in the 1830s and 1840s could be forgiven for looking upon Asenath Nicholson with suspicion. She was a Vermont-born Protestant devoted to spreading the Protestant version of the good word, at a time when anti-Catholicism was running high.
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(Irish Voice) 19 Feb 2004
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And Now Last Call at 1 a.m.?
ARE New York City officials planning to throw up yet another hurdle for bar owners and pub crawlers in New York City?
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(Irish Voice) 6 Feb 2004
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And Now Last Call at 1 a.m.?
ARE New York City officials planning to throw up yet another hurdle for bar owners and pub crawlers in New York City?
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(Irish Voice) 6 Feb 2004
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Fast Start For NYPD Browne
THIS surely is not what Paul J. Browne expected just two weeks into his new job as the New York City Police Department’s Deputy Commissioner for Public Information (DCPI).
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(Irish Voice) 29 Jan 2004
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The Knicks’ New Irish Coach
IT’S been a good week for Brooklyn basketball in New York City.
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(Irish Voice) 22 Jan 2004
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New Phase of Smoking War
RAYMOND Luby has operated Finn McCool’s bar and restaurant in Tappan, Rockland County, New York, for 13 years. His customers and employees, he says, have always been loyal.
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(Irish Voice) 15 Jan 2004
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Brennan Off and Running
BROOKLYN Assembly-man Jim Brennan grew up in a largely Irish and Italian apartment building on Manhattan’s lower east side..
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(Irish Voice) 8 Jan 2004
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Irish Shuffle at NYPD
ONE Irishman in going away at the NYPD – and another is coming up.
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(Irish Voice) 18 Dec 2003
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Blue Christmas for McNicholls
WITH all the attention recently garnered by the dilemma of Malachy McAllister and his family, it has perhaps been easy to forget John Eddie McNicholl and his family.
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(Irish Voice) 11 Dec 2003
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Irish Americans Angry Over North
IRISH American activists and observers initially applauded Tuesday’s historic news out of Northern Ireland. However, the mood darkened when it became clear that David Trimble had dashed the hopes of an historic deal at the last momen
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(Irish Voice) 22 Oct 2003
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A Saint in the South Bronx
THE nightmares of Helen Travis are right up there with the travails of Frank McCourt, and others who’ve seen the dark side of immigrant life.
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(Irish Voice) 15 Oct 2003
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All Eyes on Bronx Conference
MARIE Ford Reilly’s grandfather came to America from County Clare. She was born and raised in Philadelphia, the product of “18 years of Catholic education.”
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(Irish Voice) 10 Oct 2003
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More FDNY Mourning in Queens
ON FRIDAY, October 3 at 1 p.m., a funeral mass will be held for firefighter James O’Shea at Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church in Holbrook. Viewing hours are slated for Wednesday and Thursday at Grant Funeral Home in Brentwood.
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(Irish Voice) 1 Oct 2003
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The Kennedys and the Cardinals
AS soon as Daniel came in through the farmhouse door she knew from the wide smile on his face that he had caught fish.
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(Irish Voice) 24 Sep 2003
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Bertie, George to Break Bread
WHEN he visits the U.S. next week, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern will be peppered with questions from the U.S. and Irish media about the ongoing war in Iraq, the looming smoking ban in Irish pubs, and the never-ending problems in Northern Ireland.
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(Irish Voice) 18 Sep 2003
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A Sad, Yet Curious Anniversary
PERHAPS you’ve heard that there is an effort going around – by e-mail, or by word of mouth – to have folks light up candles in front of their homes to mark the anniversary of September 11. This echoes the spontaneous candle-lighting many New Yorkers did in the days and weeks after 9/11/01.
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(Irish Voice) 11 Sep 2003
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