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"All politics is local." - Tip ONeillAh, good ol Tip ONeill|Tip. The guy knew what he was talking about. He played the political game as we...

There were a lot of things we couldn't do during the pandemic, but reading was not one of them. By several metrics, Americans read more during...

Face it, America: Boston has a way with words The Hub is a city on a hill of linguistic invention. By Ralph KeyesUpdated May 9, 2021, 3:00 a.m. Email to a Friend "THE GERRY-MANDER," published in the Boston Gazette, March 26, 1812.ELKANAH TISDALE (1771-1835) / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS In a 1955 magazine column, British journalist Henry Fairlie referred to those powerful individuals who actually run things, on and off stage, as “the establishment.” Fairlie’s usage suggested he had coined ...

Tobin is not an indigenous Irish name, but the family can be regarded as having become completely hibernicized. Its Irish form, Toibín, is a gaelicized version of the Norman ‘St. Aubyn.’ Another interpretation is that the name was first called de St. Aubyn and the original bearers were from Aubyn, in Brittany, France. According to the renowned Irish historian and genealogist, Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), the family came to Ireland in the wake of the Norman invasion and by 1200 were settl...

℘℘℘ RECOMMENDED Providence College Professor of English Charles F. Duffy was planning to teach some Irish American fiction in one of his Modern Irish Literature classes. “Figuring Edwin O’Connor would loom large…I reread The Last Hurrah,” Duffy writes, “and then looked around for a biography of the author. To my surprise, no such book existed.” Duffy has changed that with his exemplary A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O’Connor. Beginning with O’Connor’s middleclass...

All the latest with your favorite Irish and Irish-American talent. 1. The Academy Award nominations will not be announced until January 16, 2014, but one of Hollywood’s strongest contenders – expected to get serious consideration in several categories when the Oscar winners are announced in March – is an Irish movie in theaters now. Philomena, starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, tells the story of an Irish woman who became scandalously pregnant in 1950s Ireland and was forced to give ...

Rep. Peter Kings last hurrah Print this article The Last Hurrah is the finest fiction about American politics. Edwin O’Connor’s 1956 book won the Atlantic prize for best novel, and John Ford made it into a movie. Spencer Tracy won a best actor award for his portrayal of Frank Skeffington, a fictionalized James Michael Curley (the four-term Boston mayor, two-term convict, and one-term Massachusetts governor). O’Connor’s book and Ford’s film are valedictories to the broad-shouldered, ...