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Irish America magazine is a bi-monthly periodical that aims to cover topics relevant to the Irish in North America including a range of political, economic, social, and cultural themes. The magazine’s inaugural issue was published in October 1985. Irish America focuses on political and business leaders, organizations, artists, writers and community figures among the Irish in America through its annual lists, awards, and events including the Wall Street 50, Business 100, and Stars of the South.

Irish America magazine's primary goals are to emphasize the achievements of Irish Americans in each bi-monthly issue, such as former U.S. president Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

, former president of Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...

and chairman of Allen & Company

Allen & Company

Allen & Company is a boutique investment bank based at 711 Fifth Avenue, New York City.-History:Founded in 1922 by Charles Robert Allen, Jr., he was soon joined by his brother, Herbert A. Allen, Sr...

Donald R. Keough, comedian Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin

Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin is an American actress, stand-up comedienne, television personality, New York Times best-selling author and an LGBT rights advocate. Griffin first gained recognition for appearances on two episodes of Seinfeld, and then for her supporting role on the NBC sitcom...

, and film actress Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara is an Irish film actress and singer. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne...

History

Niall O'Dowd

Niall O'Dowd , is an Irish journalist and author living in the United States. He was extensively involved in the negotiations leading to the Irish Good Friday Peace Agreement, and is a proponent of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States...

and Patricia Harty

Patricia Harty

For the American actress, see Patricia Harty Patricia Harty is an Irish-American journalist, author and editor. She is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Irish America Magazine.-Biography:...

co-founded Irish America in 1985. Since then, it reports to have increased circulation to over 100,000 in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

and Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

. Its writers and correspondents aim to cover news events relevant to the Irish American community, through news stories, features, and interviews. Irish America has targeted Irish Americans from the worlds of politics, music, movies, theater, business, dance, books and academia to appear on the covers of the magazine over the years.

Irish Americans of the Year

2011 Dr. John L. Lahey

2010 John Fitzpatrick

2009 Kevin Cahill

2008 Tom Moran

2007 Hillary Clinton

2006 Raymond Kelly

2005 Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara

2004 John Sweeney

2003 Michael Flatley

Michael Flatley

Michael Ryan Flatley is an American Irish dancer, choreographer, actor, musician and occasional television presenter. He became internationally known for Irish dance shows Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames, and Celtic Tiger...

2002 9/11 Rescue Workers

2001 Jerri Nielsen

Jerri Nielsen

Dr. Jerri Lin Nielsen was an American physician with extensive ER experience, who in 1998 was hired to spend a year at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, as the station's only doctor....

2000 Eileen Collins

Eileen Collins

Eileen Marie Collins is a retired American astronaut and a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel. A former military instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle. She was awarded several medals for her work. Col. Collins has logged 38 days 8...

1999 George J. Mitchell

George J. Mitchell

George John Mitchell, Jr., is the former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995...

1998 Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt

Francis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, best known as the author of Angela’s Ashes, an award-winning, tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood....

1997 Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy

Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...

1996 Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

1995 Jean Kennedy Smith

Jean Kennedy Smith

Jean Ann Kennedy Smith is an American diplomat and a former United States Ambassador to Ireland. She is the eighth of nine children born to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald and is their last surviving child. She is the sister of the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy,...

Wall Street 50

Now in its 13th year, the Annual Wall Street 50 aims to highlight the accomplishments of Irish Americans in the financial community. Irish American targets honorees for their business acumen, including financial leaders not only from New York, but from across the nation. Each year one of the honorees is chosen as the Keynote Speaker. Recent Keynote Speakers at Irish America's Wall Street 50 Awards Celebration have included:

2010http://www.irishcentral.com/business/lists/wall_street_50/?year=2010 Robert J. McCann: CEO of Wealth Management Americas UBS; former Vice Chairman and President of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.'s Global Private Client Group

2009http://www.irishcentral.com/business/lists/wall_street_50/?year=2009 Brian T. Moynihan: President and CEO of Bank of America Corporation; former head of Bank of America's Global Banking and Wealth Management

2008http://www.irishcentral.com/business/lists/wall_street_50/?year=2008 Brendan McDonagh: CEO of HSBC

HSBC

HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...

-North America Holdings, Inc.

2007 Charles P. Carey: Vice-Chairman CME Group

CME Group

The CME Group bases prices for US gasoline on Brent Crude rather than West Texas Intermediate Crude , which many believe is responsible for artificially high gas prices for US consumers...

; former Chairman Chicago Board of Trade

Chicago Board of Trade

The Chicago Board of Trade , established in 1848, is the world's oldest futures and options exchange. More than 50 different options and futures contracts are traded by over 3,600 CBOT members through open outcry and eTrading. Volumes at the exchange in 2003 were a record breaking 454 million...

2006 John G. Duffy: Chairman and CEO Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. is an investment banking firm headquartered in New York City, specializing exclusively in the financial services sector...

2005 Robert J. McCann: Chief Executive Officer of Wealth Management Americas UBS; former Vice Chairman and President of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.'s Global Private Client Group

2004 Donald R. Keough: Chairman of the Board of Allen & Company Inc.; Former president, COO, and a director of The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia...

2003 Michael J. Rice: President, Private Client Group at Prudential Securities

Prudential Securities

Prudential Securities was the financial services arm of the insurer, Prudential Financial. In 2003, Prudential Securities was merged into Wachovia Securities, a division of Wachovia Bank.-History:...

Incorporated

2002 Thomas C. Quick: Vice Chairman of Quick and Reilly/Fleet Securities Inc.

2001 Denis Kelleher: Founder and CEO of Wall Street Access

2000 Christopher 'Kip' M. Condron: President and CEO of AXA Financial, Inc.

There has been a Guest of Honor at every Wall Street 50 event. Recent Guests of Honor have included Golf Champion Pádraig Harrington

Padraig Harrington

Pádraig P. Harrington is an Irish professional golfer who plays on The European Tour and The PGA Tour. He has won three major championships: The Open Championship in 2007 and 2008 and the PGA Championship, also in 2008.-Background:...

(2009) and Republican Senator John McCain

John McCain

John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....

(2008), among others.

Business 100

Irish America honors corporate success in the Irish community across the United States with the annual Business 100. Each year, 100 honorees are featured in an edition of the magazine, and their accomplishments are celebrated at a luncheon. The magazine also welcomes one guest as the Guest of Honor. Recent Keynote speakers at this event have included the following:

2010http://www.irishcentral.com/business/lists/business_100/?year=2010 Anne Sweeney

Anne Sweeney

Anne Marie Sweeney is the Co-Chair of Disney Media Networks and President of Disney-ABC Television Group.-Life and career:...

, Co-Chairman Disney Media Networks and President, Disney-ABC Television Group

Disney-ABC Television Group

Disney-ABC Television Group manages all of The Walt Disney Company's worldwide entertainment and news television properties...

2009http://www.irishcentral.com/business/lists/business_100/?year=2009 Liam Casey, founder of PCH International

PCH International

PCH International is an international supply chain management company and is the leader in the accessories market for smartphones, eReaders and tablets...

2008http://www.irishcentral.com/business/lists/business_100/?year=2008 Donald Keough

Donald Keough

Donald R. Keough is Chairman of the Board of Allen & Company Incorporated, a New York investment-banking firm. He was elected to that position in April 1993....

, chairman of Allen and Company, and former CEO of Coca-Cola

2007 Paula Dobriansky

Paula Dobriansky

Paula Jon Dobriansky is an American foreign policy expert who has served in key roles as a diplomat and policy maker in the administrations of five U.S. presidents, both Democrat and Republican. She is a specialist in the areas of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as well as...

, US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

2006 James Quinn, President of Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Co. is an American jewelry and silverware company. As part of its branding, the company is strongly associated with its Tiffany Blue , which is a registered trademark.- History :...

2005 John Hartnett, Senior Vice President of Palm Inc., and A. G. Lafley

A. G. Lafley

Alan George "A.G." Lafley is the former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Procter & Gamble, retiring from the company in 2010...

, former CEO of Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

2003 Dennis Swanson, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Viacom

Viacom

Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...

Television Group, and James McCann (businessman), President, CEO, and founder of 1-800-Flowers

1-800-Flowers

1-800-Flowers is a floral and gift retailer and distribution company in the United States. It was one of the first retailers to use a 24 x 7 toll-free telephone number and the Internet for direct sales to consumers....

2002 Tom McEnery, former Mayor of San Jose, California

San Jose, California

San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

, and Susan Kelliher-Ungaro, Editor in Chief of Family Circle

Family Circle

Family Circle is an American women's magazine published 15 times a year by Meredith Corporation. It began publication in 1932 as a magazine distributed at supermarkets such as Piggly Wiggly and Safeway. Cowles Magazines and Broadcasting bought the magazine in 1962. The New York Times Company bought...

2001 Tom Coughlin

Tom Coughlin

Thomas Richard Coughlin is an American football coach who is currently head coach for the New York Giants of the National Football League . Coughlin has led the Giants to victory in Super Bowl XLII. Coughlin was also the inaugural head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, serving from 1995–2002 and...

, former President of WalMart Stores, Inc.

2000 Joe T. Ford

Joe T. Ford

Joe T. Ford was CEO and is a co-founder of Alltel, a global communications giant.Joe T. Ford graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1959 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He went to work for Allied Telephone Company upon his graduation from college...

, Chairman and CEO of Alltel

Alltel

Alltel Corporation is a wireless service provider, primarily based in the United States. Before an acquisition by Verizon Wireless, it served 34 states. After the merger, Alltel continues to serve six states, mostly in rural areas...

1999 Brian Connolly, former Executive Vice President of Avon Products

Avon Products

Avon Products, Inc. is a US cosmetics, perfume and toy seller with markets in over 140 countries across the world and sales of $9.9 billion worldwide as of 2007.-Business Model:...

North America, and William D. Walsh of Sequoia Associates

1998 Anne Sweeney

Anne Sweeney

Anne Marie Sweeney is the Co-Chair of Disney Media Networks and President of Disney-ABC Television Group.-Life and career:...

, Co-Chairman Disney Media Networks / ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

Television Group

1997 Charles Feeney

Stars of the South

Since 2006, Irish America magazine aims to pay tribute to the Irish contribution to the Southern United States as the Stars of the South. The honorees are feted at an annual celebratory dinner in Atlanta.

2010's Stars of the South honorees included:

Patrick Berrigan, City Prosecutor of Slidell, Louisiana and Assistant District Attorney of Slidell City Court

Steve Cahillane, President of the North American Group for Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE)

Stephen Cross, Executive Vice President for Research of the Georgia Institute of Techology

Archbishop John F. Donoghue, retired Archbishop of Atlanta

John Maschinot, Master musician and member of A Do, a classic Irish piping and fiddling duo

Joseph M. Hassett, Accomplished lawyer and Yeats scholar, author of "W.B. Yeats and the Muses"

Patrick J. McGahan, Chairman of PJM Investments

Betty Scott Noble and Susan Dougherty, contributors to Agnes Scott College

Irish America Hall of Fame
Irish America Hall of Fame
Irish America Hall of Fame The Irish America Hall of Fame was founded by Irish America magazine in November 2010. It recognizes extraordinary figures in the Irish American community who have had a profound effect on the Irish in America and strengthened the bonds between the United States and...

In 2010, Irish America magazine began inducting members into the Irish America Hall of Fame

Irish America Hall of Fame

Irish America Hall of Fame The Irish America Hall of Fame was founded by Irish America magazine in November 2010. It recognizes extraordinary figures in the Irish American community who have had a profound effect on the Irish in America and strengthened the bonds between the United States and...

, which honors the extraordinary achievements of Irish-American leaders — from their significant accomplishments and contributions to American society, to their personal commitment to safeguarding their Irish heritage and to the betterment of Ireland. Honorees include:

Donald Keough

Donald Keough

Donald R. Keough is Chairman of the Board of Allen & Company Incorporated, a New York investment-banking firm. He was elected to that position in April 1993....

: Chairman of the Board of Allen & Company Inc.; Former president, COO, and a director of The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company

— Inducted November 2010

Dr. Kevin Cahill : Medical Doctor and Chief Medical Advisor for Counterterrorism — Inducted March 2011

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

: 42nd President of the United States — Inducted March 2011

Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...

: World renowned author of suspense novels — Inducted March 2011

Charles Feeney : Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Humanitarian — Inducted March 2011

Michael Flatley

Michael Flatley

: Lord of the Dance — Inducted March 2011

William Flynn : President and CEO of the Mutual America and chairman of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy — Inducted March 2011

Denis P. Kelleher : Founder, chairman and CEO of Wall Street Access - Inducted March 2011

Jean Kennedy Smith

Jean Kennedy Smith

: American diplomat, former United States Ambassador to Ireland, founder of Very Special Arts — Inducted March 2011

James D. Watson

James D. Watson

James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick...

: Nobel Prize winner for mapping the structure of DNA — Inducted March 2011

Contributors

The following writers have contributed to Irish America magazine:

Thomas Cahill

Thomas Cahill

Thomas Cahill is an American scholar and writer. He is best known for The Hinges of History series, a prospective seven-volume series in which the author recounts formative moments in Western civilization.-Biography:...

Jim Dwyer

Jim Dwyer is an American journalist who is a reporter and columnist with The New York Times. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times...

T.J. English

Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill is an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. Widely traveled and having written on a broad range of topics, he is perhaps best known for his career as a New York City journalist, as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York...

Thomas Hauser

Thomas Hauser is an American author.He made his debut as a writer in 1978 with The Execution of Charles Horman; An American Sacrifice. Horman's wife, Joyce and father, Ed Horman cooperated with Hauser on the book describing both the fate of Charles and his family's quest to uncover the truth in...

Mary Pat Kelly

Colum McCann

Colum McCann

Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He is a Professor of Contemporary Literature at European Graduate School and Professor of Fiction at CUNY Hunter College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing with fellow novelists Peter Carey, twice winner of the Man Booker Prize,...

Frank McCourt

Peter Quinn

Peter Quinn may refer to:*Peter Quinn , head of the Data Management Division at the European Southern Observatory*Peter Quinn , served as President of the Gaelic Athletic Association from 1991 until 1994...

Michael Scanlon

Michael Scanlon, AKA "Sean Scanlon", is a former communications director for Rep. Tom DeLay, lobbyist, and public relations executive who has pleaded guilty to corruption charges related to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal...

Interviews

The following have been interviewed in Irish America magazine over the past 25 years:

Kevin Barry (author)

Kevin Barry (author)

Kevin Barry is an Irish writer from Limerick. In 2007 he won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his short story collection There are Little Kingdoms. In 2011 he released his debut novel City of Bohane...

—February March 2011

Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry is an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. He has been shortlisted twice for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and has won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year....

—April May 2005

Mischa Barton

Mischa Barton

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton is a British-American fashion model, film, television, and stage actress, best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the American television series The O.C..-Early life:...

—April May, 2006

Joe Biden

Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...

—August September 2001

Cathie Black

Cathie Black

Cathleen Prunty "Cathie" Black is a former New York City Schools Chancellor. On April 7, 2011, Black stepped down from her position after 95 days on the job. Her appointment to replace longtime Chancellor Joel Klein was announced on November 9, 2010 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and became effective...

—2000

Bono

Bono

Paul David Hewson , most commonly known by his stage name Bono , is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his...

—April May 2002

Tom Brady

Tom Brady

Thomas Edward Patrick "Tom" Brady, Jr. is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League . After playing college football at Michigan, Brady was drafted by the Patriots in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft.He has played in four Super Bowls,...

—April May 2005, December January 2006, April May 2006

Jimmy Breslin

Jimmy Breslin

Jimmy Breslin is an American journalist and author. He currently writes a column for the New York Daily News' Sunday edition. He has written numerous novels, and columns of his have appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City...

—May June 1997

Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...

—June July 2003

Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined Londo's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the...

—November 1987, September 1990, February March 2000

George Carlin

George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums....

—June July 2006

Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...

—July August 1991, April May 2001, April May 2003, October November 2005, February March 2011

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

—March April 1996, April May 2001

George Clooney

George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...

—April May 2001, April May 2002, April May 2006

Patrick Dempsey

Patrick Dempsey

Patrick Galen Dempsey is an American actor, known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Prior to Grey's Anatomy he made several television appearances and was nominated for an Emmy Award...

—April May 2003, April May 2006

Matt Dillon

Matt Dillon

Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon is an American actor and film director. He began acting in the late 1970s, gaining fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s.- Early life :...

—April May 2006

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for...

—February March 2011

Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

Maureen Bridgid Dowd is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times and best-selling author. During the 1970s and the early 1980s, she worked for Time magazine and the Washington Star, where she covered news as well as sports and wrote feature articles...

—October November 2005, April May 2006, August September 2001

Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. He won the Booker Prize in 1993....

—April May 2006

T.J. English—June July 1999

Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell

Colin James Farrell is an Irish actor, who has appeared in such film as Tigerland, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, The Recruit, Alexander and S.W.A.T....

—August September 2002

Michael Flatley

Michael Flatley

—March 2002

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford is an American film actor and producer. He is famous for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, John Book in Witness and Jack Ryan in...

—November December 1993

Brendan Fraser

Brendan Fraser

Brendan James Fraser is a Canadian-American film and stage actor. Fraser portrayed Rick O'Connell in the three-part Mummy film series , and is known for his comedic and fantasy film leading roles in major Hollywood films, including Encino Man , George of the Jungle , Dudley Do-Right , Monkeybone ,...

—February March 2010

Pádraig Harrington

Padraig Harrington

—October November 2007

Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston is an American actress. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She later was nominated in 1989 and 1990 for her acting in...

—May 1986, Sept 1991, March April 1995, April May 1999, June July 2003

Brian Kelly (coach)

Brian Kelly (coach)

Brian Keith Kelly is an American football coach and former player in the United States. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Notre Dame, a position he has held since the 2010 season...

—December January 2011

Mary Pat Kelly—February March 2009

Caroline Kennedy

Caroline Kennedy

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is an American author and attorney. She is a member of the influential Kennedy family and the only surviving child of U.S. President John F...

—May 1992, April May 2003

Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy

—October 1992, June July 2002

Also listed as Edward Kennedy

Edward Kennedy

Edward Kennedy may refer to:*Ted Kennedy, Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy , United States Senator from Massachusetts*Edward Kennedy , journalist who first reported the German surrender in World War II*Edward Kennedy, Jr., son of U.S...

—May 1991, March April 1997, April May 2001, April May 2002, April May 2006

Claire Kilroy—February March 2011

Kevin Kline

Kevin Kline

Kevin Delaney Kline is an American theatre, voice, film actor and comedian. He has won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards, and has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and an Emmy Award.- Early life :...

—April May 2001

Bill Maher

Bill Maher

William "Bill" Maher, Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, television host, political commentator, author and actor. Before his current role as the host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher hosted a similar late-night talk show called Politically Incorrect originally on Comedy Central and...

—October November 2008

Mary McAleese

Mary McAleese

Mary Patricia McAleese served as the eighth President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011. She was the second female president and was first elected in 1997 succeeding Mary Robinson, making McAleese the world's first woman to succeed another as president. She was re-elected unopposed for a second term in...

—May June 1998

Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt

—Sept. Oct 1996, June July 1987, March April 19998, April May 2001, October November 2005, April May 2006

Van Morrison

Van Morrison

Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...

—November 1988

Bill Murray

Bill Murray

William James "Bill" Murray is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films, including Caddyshack , Ghostbusters , and...

—November 1988, October November 2005

Paul Murray (author)

Paul Murray (author)

Paul Murray is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes and Skippy Dies.-Biography:Murray was born in Dublin in 1975, the son of a professor of Anglo-Irish Drama in UCD and a teacher mother. Murray attended Blackrock College in south Dublin, an experience that would...

—February March 2011

Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

—June July 1997, April May 2001, August September 2003
October November 2005

Regis Philbin

Regis Philbin

Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Philbin is often called "the hardest working man in show business" and holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera...

—April May 2005

Colin Powell

Colin Powell

Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African American to serve in that position. During his military...

—April May 2001, April May 2005

Martin Quigley

Martin Quigley

Martin Quigley is a retired Irish sportsman. He played hurling with his local club Rathnure and with the Wexford senior inter-county team in the 1970s and 1980s...

—February 1987

Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...

—April May 2003

Coco Rocha

Coco Rocha

Coco Rocha is a Canadian fashion model.- Personal life :Rocha was born in Toronto, Ontario, and moved to Richmond and attended McRoberts secondary school, British Columbia at a very young age. Her family is in the airline industry. Her mother, Juanita, is a flight attendant and her father, Trevor...

—June July 2009

Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke

Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter and retired boxer, who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and thriller films....

—September 1987

John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He also contributed articles on the performing arts to The New York Times among other publications.-Life and career:...

—December January 2006, September 1988, August September 2002, December January 2005

Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen

Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez , better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands and Apocalypse Now , and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.He is considered one of the best actors never to be...

—October November 2000

Micky Ward

Micky Ward

Micky Ward , nicknamed Irish, is a retired American junior welterweight professional boxer and a former WBU champion from Lowell, Massachusetts...

—February March 2011

Bill Whelan

Bill Whelan

Bill Whelan, is an Irish composer and musician. He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The end result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze...

—October November 2009

Online

Selected content from each issue appears on Irish Central in its own section of the website, along with news from the Irish Voice

Irish Voice

The Irish Voice is a newspaper published in New York City, New York. It focuses on news and stories from an Irish-American perspective. The paper was first published in the fall of 1987 and was targeted at the new Irish immigrants who were moving in large numbers into the US.-Origins:The paper was...

newspaper and Home and Away (newspaper)

Home and Away (newspaper)

Home and Away is a weekly Irish emigrant newspaper printed and distributed in New York City, USA.The paper was founded in 2003 by Fergus Hannah but was bought out by Irish Voice and Irish America publisher Niall O'Dowd in June 2007 for an undisclosed sum....

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