My City Irish Hub

Discovering Irish roots did not cancel that. It complicated it, enriched it, and made it stranger in the way that American identity so often is. That, really, may be the most American part of this story.

One of iIrish's great supporters and friends since our early days, Mickey celebrated his 80th Birthday! Please share your Mickey stories to tell others...

The St. Patrick’s Day parade (and dying green of the Chicago River) in Chicago should be a cultural requirement for all Irish Americans. In our trip to the City this year, we stayed in the Financial District, producing the wonderful people watching experience of celebratory train passengers exiting the downtown Amtrak station from Milwaukee and Philadelphia draped in their green, before they headed off for a myriad of shenanigans on the Saturday morning of the parade.

The event is also a significant fundraiser. Lowe-Chapman said proceeds support St. Malachi’s food ministries, including weekday meal service, the long-running Monday Night Meal, and Saturday morning breakfast. The race also helps fund rent and utility assistance and supports a YMCA youth diversity partnership, “We Run the City,” which brought 100 children into this year’s race at a reduced cost.

Galway is adventure. Sometimes that adventure no more than getting lost in the alleys and getting really wet, but it’s there.