Ohio Irish American News’ Out & About Ohio – March 2013 Akron Akron Celtic Guards Hurling Club St. Patrick’s Parade Pancake Breakfast 9th – 7:30 am to 11:00 am, 2000 Brown Street, Akron 44319 Cincinnati – Irish Heritage Center 8th – Lessons from the Field in N. Ireland 7:00 p.m. 14th – Derek Warfield & [...]
This Monday at the Cuyahoga County Library Fairview Park Branch, the premier of my new program, “Song & Story ~ An Irish-American Journey” at 7:00pm. Followed by a signing of all three of my books: Festival Legends: Songs & Stories The People Who Made the Music that Defined a People; The Greater Cleveland Irish DIrectory; [...]
John O’Brien Jr is a pillar of the Irish-American community out in Ohio. Deputy Director of the Cleveland Irish cultural Festival, author of a book on Irish music in the US, and editor of the Ohio Irish American News, he’s overcome not one, but two serious medical obstacles to get where he is today. Founding [...]
This Monday at the Cuyahoga County Library Fairview Park Branch, the premier of my new program, “Song & Story ~ An Irish-American Journey” at 7:00pm will be followed by a signing of all three of my books: Festival Legends: Songs & Stories The People Who Made the Music that Defined a People; The Greater Cleveland [...]
Irish in America by John O’Brien, Jr. The snow’s stopped falling, tho I still see a flake drifting to the lawn, disappearing within a white lake The Tea is on, the brown bread is steaming March issues has gone to layout, and I’m sitting here dreaming Leap the swans, roll the thunder Green season’ll soon [...]
Thank you for all of your emails and comments about last month’s Editor’s Corner. The ripple effects of Sandy Hook have far to reach, before we see what results, what changes such a horrible tragedy has on America. Thank you for taking the time to email, to write or post, to stop me on the [...]
Ray Kelly, Rest in Peace … January 9, 2013 I’ve read the bios, and the memories of place People you touched with your always-smiling face How your voice reached across, oceans so wild And the wonder when you spoke, of your little child Of Green Cards and gravel and laughter late into the night Of [...]
Needling By John O’Brien, Jr. When I was 10, and in my prime Before the pain of Rheumatoid, stole my mind I drank of life, as only a child could And if I could be that child again? I would When I was 20, I ran into a blind I had no idea, meds would [...]
There are over 176,000 people of Irish descent in Cuyahoga County, 450,000 living in Greater Cleveland, more than 1.4 million in Ohio. The impact and involvement of the Irish has shaped the state since its birth. There is no better return on your advertising investment to reach the Irish community than the Ohio Irish American [...]
Pearls By John O’Brien, Jr. In Green, White and Orange; in Red, White and Blue, the symbols that own our heart, have many a hue There’s legacy in learning, in living under a dove There’s solace in sorrow, but there’s legacy in love Its easy to be melancholy, over 800 years Where all our wars [...]