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Author:Desmond Devoy
Barbara Taylor remembers when the Toronto Irish Players (TIP) couldn't get the show on the road.
That was because the whole show, actors, sets, everything, had, literally, gone off of the road, into a ditch, in their van, on their way to a performance. It really put a strain on the old showbiz...
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Author:Fraink Cairns
We have been hearing details since well back in 2012 about ‘the gathering’ which is an effort by the Irish Tourism Industry to have as many as possible visit the Emerald Isle in 2013. Eamonn O’Loghlin was certainly doing his bit to promote that including assembling a group from Toronto for an...
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Author:Desmond Devoy
They can't go back. They won't go back.
Indeed, there's nothing to go back home to, which is why so many Irish people are coming here to Canada. This plight has become all too real in the young Irish men and women filling the chairs across from Cathy Murphy's desk.
"I have people sitting across...
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Author:Nicola Corless
For four generations and 100 years O'Donoghue's Pub has stood as a landmark in North Clare. Between the Burren and the sea it stands in Fanore along the Coast Road from Ballyvaughan to Lisdoonvarna. Recently the O'Donoghue family and their regulars celebrated the pub's centenary, a feat only a...
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Author:Cormac Monaghan
"Welcome to Canada - make us better" were the now famous words uttered by the Immigration Agent at Edmonton airport in 1974 as he beckoned John Furlong and his young family onto Canadian soil. Like many an immigrant before and after him, Furlong has indeed made Canada better, although few have...
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Author:Desmond Devoy
For a nation known for its disproportionate literary heft like Ireland, it is perhaps appropriate that poet Michael D. Higgins, 70, was elected as the Republic's ninth president on Thursday, Oct. 27.
While St. Thomas More is credited as being A Man For All Seasons, Michael D., as he is...
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Author:Eamonn O'Loghlin
As our parade marks a milestone event on Sunday, March 11th, 2012, it is hard to believe that 25 years have gone by since the first tentative marchers headed down Yonge Street.
For all of those 25 years and many more, Eddie Thornton has been involved in our community and has always given without...
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Author:Pat Murphy
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War, an epic four-year struggle in which thousands of Irish-Americans played a part. Of all these, the most notable was Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888).
To put it mildly, Phil Sheridan led a life that courted...
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