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Mark Holan's Irish-American Blog

23.04.2025

Following US correspondents in Ireland, Part 2 | Mark Holan's Irish American Blog

My April 4-14 trip to Ireland allowed me to visit several places that American journalists wrote about during their late 19th or early 20th century travels to the country. Below are more of my travel photos, plus some of the correspondent’s original reporting and my work about them. MH *** "It is seldom that reporters…

Mark Holan's Irish-American Blog

27.04.2025

Following US correspondents in Ireland, Part 3 | Mark Holan's Irish American Blog

My April 4-14 trip to Ireland allowed me to explore several places visited by American journalists in their late 19th or early 20th century travels to the country. Below are a few more of my travel photos of these places, plus some of the correspondents' original reporting and my work about them. This is the…

Mark Holan's Irish-American Blog

02.05.2025

Remembering CUA library donor John K. Mullen of Galway | Mark Holan's Irish American Blog

John Kernan Mullen of Ballinasloe, County Galway, helped to fund the Catholic University of America (CUA) library that bears his name. The cornerstone was laid April 25, 1925, on the Washington, D.C., campus. Mullen emigrated to America in 1847, when he was nine. "He began working in a flour mill in Oriskany Falls, N.Y.," according…

Mark Holan's Irish-American Blog

10.05.2025

Leo XIV recalls Leo XIII’s 1888 intrigues in Ireland | Mark Holan's Irish American Blog

The elevation of American-born Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, and his decision to take the name Leo XIV, has prompted coverage about his namesake predecessor, Leo XIII, who reigned from 1878 until his death in 1903. And that's reason enough to reprise two stories about the former pope's…

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