King of Prussia, PA (August 14, 2015) – The National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) has announced that H. Edward Hanway, founding chair of Faith in the Future Foundation, and Ellen Hanway will be among five honorees to receive the organization’s 2015 Seton Award at its 25th Anniversary celebration on October 5 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. To read more, please click HERE.
We are saddened to share the news of Jim McLaughlin’s passing on Friday, July 24th.
His services will be:
– Monday night, July 27th at Stretch Funeral Home in Havertown
– Tuesday, July 28th at St. Joseph’s University Chapel, with calling at 9 am and mass at 10 am
In honor of Jim, please raise a glass, sing a song or enjoy one of his favorite songs.
In lieu of flowers donations in his memory may be made to St Ignatius Nursing & Rehab, 4401 Haverford Ave, Phila, Pa. 19104 or to Visiting Nurses Assoc of Phila, 3300 Henry Ave, Phila, Pa. 19129.
Read more at stretchfuneralhome.com/obituary/James-J.-McLaughlin-Jr/
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Hit-run victim an ‘actor’s actor,’ devout Joyce fan: Irish-American actor, Mike Toner, has been involved in a very serious hit and run accident in Center City on Tuesday, June 9th.
Anyone with information about the hit-and-run is being asked to call 215-685-3180 or 215-686-8477 (TIPS).
Toner, of the 4300 block of Vista Street in Holmesburg, has appeared in a number of theatrical productions here and in New York, according to online biographies.
In a 1988 interview with The Inquirer, Toner, a Mayfair native who graduated from what is now La Salle University, said he had carved out a niche playing Irish characters.
At that time, he had created two one-man shows. One was a compilation of selections from the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett called Beginning to End. The other was An Evening with Mr. Dooley, based on the fictitious Irish American colloquial philosophizer created by the Chicago journalist Finley Peter Dunne in the late 1800s.
“I sort of subspecialize as an actor in the dramatization of Irish and Celtic literature and characters,” Toner said.
“When I’m dramatizing Irish literature, poetry, or fiction, or any of the Celtic – Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx – it gives me such a depth of intellectual and emotional experience to work with,” he said. “It’s very rich material, I find, for actors. It really helps me expand my scope and depth.”
He also has been a reader of Joyce’s Ulysses at the annual June 16 celebration of Bloomsday at the Rosenbach Museum.
Read more at http://www.philly.com and http://mobile.philly.com/news/
Please help support Irish Radio!
“Come West Along the Road” with Marianne MacDonald and the Vincent Gallagher Irish Hour has been on the air for almost 10 years. The shows are live every Sunday from 11:00AM to 1:00PM on WTMR 800 AM. The shows can also be heard on the internet at www.wtmrradio.com, or by listening on a smartphone via iHeartradio.com, or Tunein.com.
Please, if you can, support the radio show by making a pledge during the upcoming on-air fundraiser on Sunday, April 12th, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM hosted by Michael Bradley, you will be helping to keep a Philadelphia tradition alive and well!
For more information, email either Michael Bradley at mbradley@bradleyfloors.com or to Marianne MacDonald at rinceseit@msn.com prior to Sunday.
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Deputy Prime Minister Joan Burton, TD, who is also the leader of the Labour Party and the Minister for Social Protection, is on a whirlwind St. Patrick’s weekend tour of Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburgh to promote continued economic ties between the United States and Ireland.
On Saturday, March 14th, she addressed about 200 leaders of the local Irish community at a reception in Center City. To read more, please click HERE.
Prior to this large reception, the Irish Chamber hosted the Tanaiste for a private breakfast at The Rosenbach Museum, complete with a viewing of Joyce’s original “Ulysses.”
