2005 Articles
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Author:Desmond Devoy
To catch a few moments with Sue Storey is quite a coup. As a Managing Director with CIBC World Markets, it is not uncommon for the native of Dublin's Rathfarnham neighbourhood to put in long days at her Bay Street office. And her charity and fundraising schedule alone would be one that would keep...
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Author:Administrator
Award-winning journalist Martina Purdy, political correspondent for BBC Northern Ireland, has just published her first book, entitled Room 21, Stormont Behind Closed Doors.
Martina, who was born in Belfast but raised in Toronto Canada after her family moved there due to the escalating conflict in...
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Author:Pat O'Keefe
The Canadian Mounties were the brainchild of a distinguished Tipperary man named William Francis Butler.
On an August night in 1870, a young Irishman set off from Fort Gary in the Red River Valley of Manitoba on a historic journey at the request of the Canadian government. He was William...
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Author:Desmond Devoy
Canada?s first-ever Irish burial site officially came into being this past September, providing a final resting place for the descendants of St. Patrick?s isle.
The event was marked by the rededication of a Celtic Cross at the new Irish burial section of the Assumption Catholic Cemetery in...
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Author:Desmond Devoy
For John Doyle to write about Canadian television is to be expected. For him to write a whole book about Irish television and its impact on the country and his childhood, not only comes as a bit of a surprise, but as a pleasant one at that.
Also just as surprising, as one learns when one talks...
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Author:Desmond Devoy
Few people are as enduring, well known or as entertaining in our Toronto Irish community as Frankie Benson.
The Belfast-born entertainer and broadcaster can very rightly claim to have both seen and done it all during his time here in Canada, watching the Irish emigrant community grow by leaps...
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Author:Eamonn O'Loghlin
Our Grand Marshal for 2006 Erin Davis, was born in Edmonton, Alberta and as a result of her father's Air Force career, was raised everywhere, including Ottawa, Trenton and England. Her Great Grandfather who immigrated from Ireland before the Famine settled in Maniwaki, Quebec in the upper Gatineau...
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Author:Administrator
From traditional to contemporary, five Irish women put a modern twist on the Celtic sound. On stage at the Hummingbird Centre on March 8, 2006
Lisa Kelly, singing since she was 7, comes from a musical family in Dublin. Classically trained in both piano and singing, Lisa has also studied Drama...
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