Irish developer Niall Mellon recently launched a campaign to recruit volunteers from the U.S. to participate in a housing building program in Cape Town,South Africa from November 28 to December 6, 2008.
Protestant Writes Stories of Bloody Sunday Victims
by Wil Ralston
On January 30, 1972 the British Army conducted an arrest operation in Derry during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march. During the protest, fourteen unarmed marchers were shot and killed and another fourteen were seriously injured. The day has since been known as “Bloody Sunday.”
Detroit News: 2008 Midwest Fleadh Ceoil
Concert and Ceili featuring Bohola with Jimmy Keane and Pat Broaders
Also appearing: Irish Tenor Paddy Homan
Friday, May 9, 2008
8:00 p.m.
Doubletree Hotel
5801 Southfield Freeway just North of Ford Road
Dearborn, Michigan
Paisley Thanks American Ireland Fund
Dr. Ian Paisley, First Minister of Northern Ireland, met with The American Ireland Fund’s 2008 New York Dinner Committee to congratulate and thank the Funds’ members for the $300 million it has raised since its inception, much of which has been spent on projects in Northern Ireland.
Hibernian Leader Condemns Deportation
The leader of the nation’s oldest and largest Irish Catholic organization has taken the U.S. government to task for the deportation of Jamie McAllister. “It is apparent that having failed in their efforts to extradite Jamie’s father Malachy,” stated Jack Meehan ofQuincy, MA, “the U. S. government is taking its’ revenge.” This action is reprehensible, a mockery of priorities and truly unjust.”
Fionnula Flanagan Refuses Oscar Wilde Award
By James Bartlett
The annual Oscar Wilde: Honoring the Irish in Film awards is usually a highlight of the Hollywood awards season, but this year they have been hit by scandal. Actress and nominee Fionnula Flanagan has decided to turn down the honor and not attend the ceremony, which takes place at the Ebell Theater on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles on February 21st.
Golden Globes/Oscar Wilde Awards
Celebrate the Irish in Hollywood
By James Bartlett
Thanks to the Writer’s Guild strike the full Golden Globes ceremony was absent from television this year, although that might have taken away the sting of losing for a number of Irish actors.
Young County Carlow actress Saoirse Ronan’s performance in Atonement wasn’t enough to beat Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in innovative biopic I’m Not There in the Best Motion Picture Drama category, and Corkman Jonathan Rhys-Meyers portrayal as the infamous King Henry VIII in The Tudors didn’t win over the judges as Best Actor in a Television Series.
