Category Archives: Things Irish

Professor Moriarty Whitey Bulger and the Boston Bomber.

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

Many of my friends (I would like to consider my fans as friends) know part of what I based my Professor Moriarty on was Boston gangster James “Whitey Bulger. Whitey is now in the Federal Prison hospital in Plymouth, MA. … Continue reading →

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Shake Hands with the Devil.

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

I’ve known of this 1959 movie with James Cagney most of my life.  It’s a story about the fight for Irish independence from the United Kingdom.  My wife Elaine, who is of Irish descent, had never seen it.  It left … Continue reading →

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Irish with Sticks.

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

Irish with sticks?  What kind of talk is that?  (I got the second sentence from the Monty Python skit, where John Cleese plays the dead parrot owner and Michael Palin, the pet store owner.  ”He’s pining for the fjords.”  ”Pining … Continue reading →

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Whitey Bulger

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

I’ve written before about my version of Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis Professor Moriarty was based partly on the criminal career of one James “Whitey” Bulger. People like Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck have talked about a movie.  I think … Continue reading →

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Death of the Iron Lady

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

Death of the Iron Lady.

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Celebrating Margaret Thatcher’s Death: Is it right or wrong?

Posted on April 10, 2013 by

Celebrating Margaret Thatcher’s Death: Is it right or wrong?.  This is from my friend Loretto.  Is it appropriate to celebrate another person’s death? I would probably have celebrated the death of a Nazi leader.  Also look at another side of … Continue reading →

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Diasporas

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

The Jewish Diaspora is just one of many, in which more live outside the original homeland, than in it. The most extreme is Ireland.  Only five percent of the world’s Irish population LIVES in Ireland.  Half of the 80 million … Continue reading →

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Why Ireland Should BEG to rejoin the United Kingdom!

Posted on March 24, 2013 by

I understand the centuries of repression by the island across the channel.  Has joining the European Union done any better for Ireland? See the blogpost by my friend Loretto Horrigan Leary on a recent outrage in Ireland.  The title is … Continue reading →

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Why Did You Leave Ireland?

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

  This is an interview I did with my friend Loretto Horrigan Leary.  I have a link to another interview with her on the bottom of this piece.  The Irish Diaspora has been covered heavily, but I am trying to … Continue reading →

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Mets-Red Sox, A Mixed Marriage.

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

      You’re not a Yankee fan:  Are you?    When I called my wife of almost twenty-eight years for our second date, that’s what she asked me.  The phone was on my bosses’ desk, he smiled and there … Continue reading →

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