The September 1995 issue
September 1995 put three pieces on the Book of Kells into one issue, from calfskin to the Chi-Rho page. Around them: a famine mural in Belfast, New Jersey teaching the Famine beside the Holocaust, Notre Dame football and a press secretary’s Cromwell gaffe.
Answers given in great little book: Praises given where deserved
An arts roundup from September 1995: an Irish trivia reference, The Brothers McMullen fresh from Sundance, a proverb book, and The Run of the Country.
Baseball in critical condition with fans
Five months after the 1994-95 strike ended, a columnist weighed millionaire players against a coal-dirt lot called the Dairy Field and picked the lot.
Conference links women from around the world
Ireland's equality minister told the 1995 Beijing women's conference his government would make equality real in law and in fact. What Dublin delivered.
Divulging Gaelic football's fine points: Game enjoys popularity on both sides of Atlantic
A 1995 primer for American readers on the rules of Gaelic football, written days before Dublin met Tyrone in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park.
Dole should seek voters' endorsement not Thatcher's
Our September 1995 editorial warned Bob Dole that a nod from Margaret Thatcher was worth nothing in an American voting booth, and Irish-American votes were.
Great Famine mural reflects Ireland's troubles: NI youths make statement during cultural festival
In August 1995 young people in North Belfast's New Lodge painted the Great Hunger on a gable wall and tied it to the poverty outside their doors.
Irish Great Famine taught alongside Jewish Holocaust: New Jersey law used as model for nation
Irish-American activists in Nutley wanted the Famine in every state's genocide curriculum. New Jersey said yes a year later, and the argument began.
Making the Book of Kells: ...But before they could start
Before a line was painted, calves had to become vellum. A 1995 sidebar on the skins, and on a $6,250 set of licensed Kells prints.
Making the Book of Kells: Symbolism tells the stories
Peacocks, beard-pulling men and rats fighting over the Eucharist: how the Kells monks turned the everyday animals and quarrels of their world into gospel lessons.
Making the Book of Kells: When art was a labor of love and bookmaking no simple task
A Cork art dealer selling licensed prints in New York talked us through how monks on Iona and at Kells made the most famous Gospel book in Ireland.
McGuinness: British rule failed in Northern Ireland; Government must set date for peace talks
On a five-day American tour in September 1995, Sinn Féin's chief negotiator told a Philadelphia audience that decommissioning was a British obstacle to all-party talks.
Money headed to Ireland, NI in support of peace process
In the ceasefire year the Boston-based American Ireland Fund steered its grants north, from an $800 parents' centre to youth work in West Belfast.
Notre Dame: Bloodied but unbowed
After the shock loss to Northwestern in September 1995, guard Ryan Leahy, grandson of coach Frank Leahy, carried a family name into a season that needed rescuing.
Press secretary apologizes: Cromwell comments insult Irish community
Newt Gingrich's press secretary called Oliver Cromwell a misunderstood visionary in the Washington Post. Father Sean McManus made sure he took it back.
Sports talk: Goblins influence college football strategy at times
A Halloween-season column on blowouts, poll politics and the goblin on the winning coach's shoulder, written the autumn Bobby Bowden apologised to Duke.
Symons Says: End of summer musings; Expectations for Autumn
Ceilis, a new AOH division, a 100th birthday and a tomato war: Tommy Symons rounds up the Irish summer of 1995 in Pennsylvania's coal country.
Wonderful characters drive adventure story
A 1995 review of John B. Keane's Durango, the Kerry playwright's comic novel of a hill farmers' cattle drive, on its American release.