Here are three unrelated items about Ireland during the merry, merry month: UCC exhibit I was delighted to contribute some research and materials to "The Irish Revolution in the African American Press" exhibition at University College Cork. It is focused on how the US black press covered three key events: De Valera’s tour of America…

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02.06.2025

Reporting Matt Talbot’s life and death, then and now | Mark Holan's Irish American Blog

Matt Talbot, a role model for many people battling alcoholism and addiction, died June 7, 1925, in a Dublin alleyway. He was on his way to Mass; an austere Catholicism being key to his sobriety. Then an anonymous ascetic, today Talbot is considered for sainthood. The Dublin press missed Talbot's public passing; no one- or…

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10.06.2025

Brayden on the Irish Boundary Commission, Part 1 | Mark Holan's Irish American Blog

Irish-born journalist William H. Brayden in the summer of 1925 wrote a series of articles for US newspapers about the newly partitioned Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. This summer I am revisiting various aspects of his reporting. Read the introduction. Brayden's coverage of the Irish Boundary Commission is divided into two posts. Part 1…

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17.06.2025

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