World of Hibernia articles from September 1997

World of Hibernia archives from September 1997

Corporate chieftains.(Bill Flynn and Tom Moran of Mutual of Omaha)
September 22, 1997... Bill Flynn Chairman, Mutual of America Mutual of America is an unusual company. Not because its business generating life insurance and retirement plans for not-for-profit organizations is appreciably different from other...

Squaring up Mary Swanzy.(Irish painter)(includes related information on the market for her paintings)
September 22, 1997... From horse-drawn carriages to the first moon walk, women's suffrage campaigns to the election of Margaret Thatcher, and Gilbert & Sullivan to the Bee Gees, Mary Swanzy witnessed many changes during her long lifetime. Born 1882, her career as a...

Pennsylvania's little piece of Ireland.(Scariff manor house)
September 22, 1997... Ah, the allure of the Irish country house. Who can resist its elegance, comfort, and charm? The ambiance it evokes inspires even the least imaginative to dream of driving between stone gateposts -- down an allee of lime trees -- to a red-brick...

The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean: Montserrat.
September 22, 1997... "Are you here on business or pleasure?" the immigration officer inquired of me as I dropped my carry-on bag at his feet. I hesitated a moment, considering how implausible it sounded that I had come to a Caribbean island on business. After all,...

Ireland's greatest advocate: Loretta Brennan Glucksman.
September 22, 1997... On an intoxicating spring morning, when all of New York seemed sun-kissed with the blooms of a fresh season, I entered the inner sanctum of Manhattan's greatest paean to Irish culture -- Glucksman Ireland House. Architecturally, a visit to...

Leading men.(The Hollywood Irish)(Cover Story)(Interview)
September 22, 1997... Irish men have been a mainstay of American cinema since the early days of Hollywood. A whole generation of Irish-American actors -- from John Wayne to Gregory Peck -- had major drawing power in the glory days of film. Irish actors, too, gained...

Leading Hollywood.
September 22, 1997... The Celtic invasion of Hollywood has been captured through a collection of interviews with six of Ireland's most formidable talents in contemporary cinema: Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Pierce Brosnan, and Patrick...

Women in Irish film: the director's cut.
September 22, 1997... Last May, in association with the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University's Glucksman Ireland House played host to a hugely successful Irish film festival. Screenings were packed for a program comprising brand-new features and shorts in...

Filmdom's feistiest colleen.(actress Maureen O'Hara)(includes related article on the film 'The Quiet Man')
September 22, 1997... With a career spanmore than 50 years and 57 films, Maureen O'Hara has worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, Jean Renoir, and the Irish-born John Ford. She shared the screen with nearly every leading man of her time,...

The town he loves so well: John Hume's Derry.(Londonderry, Northern Ireland)
September 22, 1997... In the wake of the recently announced Northern Ireland cease-fire, SDLP (Social Democratic and Labour Party) leader John Hume is busily preparing for this month's scheduled peace talks. Meanwhile, there is serious discussion in the Republic of...

The Rose of Tralee.(Festival of Kerry event in County Kerry, Ireland)
September 22, 1997... Each year, as the late autumn sun beams down on a small corner of southwest Ireland, a coach load of young women of Irish extraction arrive in the town of Tralee in County Kerry. For 10 days-they are treated like princesses, ushered like...

Missing friends.(efforts by Irish immigrants in America to locate family and friends)(includes related information on advertisements in The Pilot newspaper)
September 22, 1997... Arriving in America is an emotional experience for any immigrant. Descending through the clouds, first-time visitors get a bird's eye preview of their new homeland from the air. Once the airplane has touched down, the excitement on the...

Splendid Sligo.(County Sligo, Ireland)(includes excerpts from poems by W.B. Yeats)
September 22, 1997... One after in late autumn last year, a friend and I were driving along the upper road through the Glencar Valley from Leitrim into Sligo. It was a perfect day. As the sun began to drop, the whole landscape was transformed by a pale wash of...

Wilde at heart.(author Oscar Wilde)
September 22, 1997... Whenever a quizmaster asks you to identify the author of a pithy and witty quotation, if you don't know the answer with certainty, then it's a fairly safe bet that an educated guess, or indeed a stab in the dark, of either George Bernard Shaw...

One Day as a Tiger.
September 22, 1997... Of the three young women who have written the books reviewed herein, Anne Haverty's debut novel is far and away the best of the bunch. It concerns a man living in the shadow of his more kindly and well-adjusted brother, his romantic attachment...

Curtains.
September 22, 1997... This is Katy Hayes's first novel, but unlike the other two writers discussed here, she has already had her fiction published; her wonderfully witty and subversive collection of short stories, Forecourt, was released in 1995. In many ways...

Solomon's Seal and Other Stories.
September 22, 1997... My chief motivation in wanting to read this debut collection of short stories was to find out what kind of short story is winning all the competitions these days. Molly McCloskey was given the RTE/Francis MacManus Award in 1995, won the...

What's hot is Ireland!(Ireland is fastest-growing tourist destination for Americans traveling to Europe)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... The Emerald Isle is attracting increasingly large numbers of discerning American visitors and has become the fastest-growing vacation destination for travelers from the U.S. to Europe. According to the Irish Tourist Board, there has been a 75...