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"All politics is local." - Tip O'NeillAh, good ol' Tip O'Neill|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 this term. When debunkers provided evidence to the contrary, Fairlie conceded their point. So who di...

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 settled in Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, from where they spread to the neighboring counties of Waterfo...

℘℘℘ 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 youth in a Rhode Island split between Irish and French Canadian Catholics, Duffy follows O’Connor...