My City Irish Hub

healthy debate and exploration of what our pre-Christian ancestors believed, rejecting the colonial characterizations offered by Norman and English invaders to justify their military conquests, is like that noble goal of Wolfe Tone and the United Irishman to create an independent Ireland which welcomes Catholic, Protestant, and Dissenter.

To go to an Irish wedding, you had best go into training. I thought that I was ready. To be fair to myself, I think that I was coming down with a little bit of something. I made it until 1:45. The rest hung on until the “afters” concluded at four AM.

The structure behind the parade reinforces this. The event is organized by the United Irish Societies of Greater Cleveland, which was formed in 1958 to coordinate parade planning and has managed the parade since. The parade’s long-running success is not accidental; it is maintained through volunteer systems, organizational memory, and the often-invisible work of people who understand that a tradition lasts only if people keep showing up to do the backstage work.

Every sound, the groan of iron, the whistle of steam, rose and settled in his chest. His name was Michael Sammon, and the year was 1915. He had just returned from Colorado, where he had taken his wife, Anne, hoping clean air might ease the illness closing her lungs.

Because it is completely counterintuitive that an island with a population of five million could manage to have that same small population link to someone everywhere they go. It doesn’t make sense, or does it?