Columns
Opinion, letters and the voices that filled the back pages.
What Auntie Maudie has to say
A jailbird suitor, a husband at clogging class, a town drunk and a 45-year-old with cold feet: the Celtic Mirror's semi-fictitious Irish auntie answers them all.
Symons Says: Growing up mixed up
Tommy Symons on a Pennsylvania coal-country boyhood, a Welsh Methodist father, a grandfather from Tipperary, and learning to be Irish from Bing Crosby.
Inside Outsider: ... times there were before and new voices at the door
Opening the March 2003 relaunch, Hugh Dougherty remembers the copy editor and the political writer who did not live to see An Scáthán return.
Symons Says: 'Green grow the grasses, ho ...'
A summer call from Auntie Skattin means awnings, screens and a cedar chest in the garret, where Tommy Symons finds the hospital bill for his own birth.
Perspective: Hand over your weapons
Patrick S. McCormick argued in June 1998 that IRA disarmament could only come as part of a mutual stand-down, and tipped his hat to Clinton and Mitchell.
Perspective: Bono pulls a boner
Days before the 1998 referendum, Bono shared a Belfast stage with John Hume and David Trimble. Patrick S. McCormick was not impressed.
Enlisting Irish-Americans in aid of Ireland
After hearing Gerry Adams at Seton Hall, a New Jersey reader drew up a to-do list for Irish America, from UN status to radio requests and famine stamps.
A new chapter in Irish history unfolds
Weeks after the Good Friday Agreement, our history columnist asked both sides to speak softly, warned of the hate-mongers, and braced for the Twelfth of July.
Symons Says: What say we let the Irish go on holiday?
Tommy Symons makes the case for a national St. Patrick's Day holiday, then reports from the parades, pubs and step-dance stages of the Pennsylvania coal region.
Symons Says: Is there an easier way to get to cyberspace?
Tommy Symons weighs up buying a computer, then turns to what he really cared about: the Molly Maguires, the coal towns and the friends keeping their story alive.
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.
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.
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.