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Co-publisher Niall O'Dowd's interview with then Senator Joe Biden originally appeared in the April 1987 issue of Irish America. Senator Joseph Finnegan-Biden, head of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, is one of a handful of people who can realistically aspire to the presidency of the United States. While he is still regarded as an outsider for the 1988 Democratic nomination, there is unanimous agreement that the withdrawal of New York Governor Mario Cuomo has greatly boosted the...

Somber tributes and salutes to victims marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11

How Irish Famine immigrants changed life in Philadelphia and created an everlasting home for Irish-Americans. IrishCentral is currently running a series in partnership with the Irish Heritage Tree on the Irish Famine migration to America.

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℘ ℘ On March 17, 1964, Robert F. Kennedy traveled to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to address the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. His address that evening was rich in purpose but also in sentiment. It was his first speech since Dallas. He had chosen this Irish American audience in this most Irish of cities to share what lay so deep in his heart: his love for his lost brother Jack and his commitment to his legacy. He began with a tribute to the legacy he and his audience shared: the mid-19th centur...

Justice William Brennan, Jr. On April 25, 1990 William Joseph Brennan, Jr was 84 years old. An associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States for the past 33 years, he is considered – ruefully, by his many conservative detractors – to be one of the most influential shapers of public policy in the country. A native of Newark, New Jersey, the son of Irish immigrants, Brennan was appointed to the the court by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956; having served seven years on the Ne...

Anne Anderson Becomes First Female Member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Ambassador Anne Anderson in the green jacket of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick after she became the first woman admitted to the organization in its history. By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant Irish Ambassador Anne Anderson became the first women to be inducted into the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, an organization that has had an exclusively male membership since it was founded in...

Cancelled Saratoga Springs St. Paddy’s dinner will nevertheless donate proceeds | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS For the second consecutive year, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the The Society of the Friendly of St. Patrick of Saratoga Springs to cancel its annual black-tie dinner, which would have been Wednesday. But the organization nevertheless pledges to donate proceeds that were collected in advance of the event to three charities, as it did last year. Most members and guests who already p...

Mobile’s Friendly Sons of St. Patrick won’t march on Wednesday Updated Mar 16, 2021; Posted Mar 16, 2021 The Friendly Son of St. Patrick of Mobile, Alabama, parade along Dauphin Street on Saturday, March 16, 2019. Facebook Share Mobile’s Friendly Sons of St. Patrick won’t march on Wednesday, though they will observe tradition in less public ways. “Yes, unfortunately it’s true,” said Clay Bedford, president of the organization. Bedford said the group had sensed the city might not...