Category: Books
May Issue Has Arrived, featuring Cleveland’s Own Saint, Fr. Jim O’Donnell
The new issue of iIrish has arrived, get yours from more than 450 locations – the complete list, sorted by zip, is on iIrish.us
Irish Lit: The English Jesuit in Dublin
The next time I am in Dublin, I will go to Glasnevin Cemetery, to the Jesuit plot, and leave a small oval-shaped blue-hued stone at the foot of the cross where Gerard Manley Hopkins’ name is engraved. The great nineteenth-century poet is
Off the Shelf: Profit Song
By Paul Lynch A Oneworld Book ISBN-978-0-86154-686-2 309 Pages Review by Terry Kenneally Prophet Song, this year’s Booker Prize winner, is a harrowing and dystopian novel that visibly renders a […]
Out of the Mailbag, Comes Songs and Stories: UnBroken at Cleveland International Film Festival
From 1933 to 1934, one of the first fascist concentration camps in Germany. Oranienburg Concentration Camp, was located in the Weber’s hometown of Berlin.
They called the time, “The Horror” – much like the Irish refer to “The Troubles.”
Off the Shelf: Kala
As the story begins, the six, three boys and three girls, are perched on their bikes preparing to hurtle down a steep hill and through a narrow gap at the bottom where the path meets the main road. The idea
April Has Arrived, featuring Drum Major Tony Dalesio of the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial Pipe & Drums
Out of the Mailbag, Comes Songs and Stories: African Giants
Tensions mount, and we wonder, what happened? What has not been said, and why? Is it fear? Perhaps out of respect and perhaps because of their deep love for each other, not wishing to hurt anew?
Out of the eMailbag, Comes Songs and Stories: Who is St. Patrick?
Who was st. patrick? Sober St. Patrick’s Day founder and chair Bill Reilly feels that as St. Patrick’s Day approaches, there’s no better time to remember what this important figure […]
Mighty March Has Arrived, Our Cover features the 2024 iIrish Person of the Year, Ohio Honorary Consel Mark Owens
Out of the Mailbag, Comes Songs and Stories – The 1981 Hunger Strike
“Since it is impossible to experience the circumstances these men lived through, history will have to serve to illuminate what