Mark Holan's Irish-American Blog

Mark Holan's Irish-American Blog

I am a journalist of Irish descent residing in Boston. Thanks to my maternal grandparents from County Kerry, I have Irish citizenship and an Irish/EU passport. I have traveled to both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland 10 times, including a journalism fellowship with the German Marshall Fund.

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  • 1 week ago | markholan.org | Mark Holan

    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 2 begins below the map. Read Part 1.

  • 3 weeks ago | markholan.org | Mark Holan

    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.

  • 1 month ago | markholan.org | Mark Holan

    Here are three unrelated items about Ireland during the merry, merry month:UCC exhibitI was delighted to contribute some research and materials to “The Irish Revolution in the African American Press” exhibition at University College Cork.

  • 1 month ago | markholan.org | Mark Holan

    Irish poet Paul Durcan has died in Dublin. He was 80. His “contribution to the performed poem was of enormous importance to the appreciation of poetry in Ireland,” Irish President Michael D. Higgins said.

  • 1 month ago | markholan.org | Mark Holan

    Journalist William H. Brayden produced in the summer of 1925 what he called “a survey of the newly constructed institutions of the self-governing Irish people.” The country’s violent revolutionary period had ended two years earlier. As Brayden set about his assessment, an intergovernmental commission considered whether to adjust the border that partitioned the six-county Northern Ireland from the 26-county Irish Free State, today’s Republic of Ireland.

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