Dan Bradley abhorred Tammany Hall and everything it had come to stand for – machine politics, political bosses, and graft.
Read more "Diasporational Part Thirteen: “Honest Dan”, the Man from Derry who took on Tammany Hall"‘I have serious doubts whether this is a real story. I am not entirely certain that it is not all a dreamand that in a few minutes I will wake up back in stateroom B19 on the promenade deck of the Cunarder “Laconia” and hear my cockney steward informing with an abundance of ‘and sirs’ that it is a fine morning.”
Read more "Diasporational Part Twelve: The Irishman Who Reported the Sinking of the “Laconia”"By Niall McArdle In New York on September 2nd, 1882, two young Irish immigrants, James Butler and P.J. O’Connor, opened a small grocery store called P.J. O’Connor & Co. on 2nd Avenue. Within a year they had opened a second store at 10th Avenue. In 1884 Butler bought O’Connor out; the business was renamed James Butler Inc. […]
Read more "Diasporational Part Eleven: Squire Butler, the Kilkenny Man who Built a Fortune with Butter & Eggs."The Moore Brothers from County Meath were leading men in Hollywood’s silent era.
Read more "Diasporational Part Ten: The Meath Brothers who Reigned in Early Hollywood"“A more fearful spectacle was never witnessed than by those who, without the power to aid, beheld their heroic countrymen rushing to the arms of death.”
Read more "Diasporational Part Nine: The Irishman who Witnessed The Charge of the Light Brigade"With her flaming red hair, alabaster skin and air of gracious gentility, Greer Garson reigned at MGM in the 1940s
Read more "Diasporational Part Eight: The Leading Lady"After a summer hiatus, the Irish Architechural Archive is open to the public once again. Housed in a beautiful and faithfully restored Georgian townhouse in Dublin’s Merrion Square, the Archive is well worth a visit. Anyone with an interest in Irish architectural history should check it out. Currently the Archive is presenting an exhibition on […]
Read more "Irish Architectural Archive in Dublin’s Merrion Square"Big, broad, brawny, with a warm speaking voice, he was popular with his audience and his leading ladies. As an actor he might have been merely adequate, but he gained quite a reputation for his Hollywood conquests. Married five times, he had affairs with Bette Davis and Jane Powell, among others. He was quoted as saying “no woman will ever own me, I own myself.”
Read more "Diasporational Part Seven: The Irish Revolutionary Who Wooed Hollywood Leading Ladies"The daughter of Irish-Russian immigrants, with her slightly exotic looks and weary air, Aline MacMahon was a versatile character actress in the Golden Age of Hollywood
Read more "Diasporational Part Six: The Character Actress"The question, of course, facing Joyce’s legacy of exile, is what would have happened to him had he stayed? Could he have written his masterwork had he stayed in Ireland “where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove”?
Read more "Diasporational Part Five – James Joyce: Poster Boy for Irish Emigration"From the Willesden Herald
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