Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: Tommy Finnegan and the Beatles of the Bagpipes
Tommy Finnegan is the son of a Chicago Firefighter and has been playing the pipes in The Shannon Rovers Pipe Band for 27 years. He sez, “I’m not mu...
May 08, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
News
Dearbhla's Sweet Home is Now Chicago
“One of my best friends lives here. And I had been back n’ forth. I was in Chicago for the first time thirty years ago, when it was one of the wors...
March 28, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Kevin O’Shea
When Kathy O’Shea passed about three and a half years ago, she left behind her husband Kevin, five kids and ten grandkids and an empty house full o...
February 19, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Police Sergeant Suzie Q. Kenny
Hollywood star Angie Dickinson made a splash playing TV’s “Sgt. Pepper Anderson,” LAPD’s top undercover cop, on her show “Police Woman” from 1974-7...
January 23, 2025
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Buffalo's Peter Nolan Made his Name in Chicago
Born in Buffalo New York, Pete Nolan hit Chicago at its cataclysmic peak. It was 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King had just been assassinated, then Bobb...
December 20, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Shining Light of Chicago P.D. calls it a day
Chicago homicide detective Lt. Dan Shine has plenty of stories to tell me as he celebrates his retirement later this week. Sure there are plenty of...
November 21, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Patrick Doc Connelly
Grabbed lunch the other day with a Southside legend who was hitting town for his cousin Jack O’Rourke’s funeral and we made a coupla stops to catch...
October 10, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
10th Annual Movie Hooley promises to be best yet
Hibernian Media proudly announces film selections for their 10th Annual Irish American Movie Hooley, scheduled this year at the Wilmette Theatre in...
September 18, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: After Sin-Bin Timeout, Southside Parade is Shamrocking Again
There’s an old Chicago saying that goes something like this: “Southside Irish think they’re the toughest, Westside Irish think they’re the smartest...
August 26, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
In the Windy City, who you gonna call? Cyril Regan, of course
Chicago Democratic politics is a blood sport. When a senior pol can feel the breath of opponents on his neck as they leak items to the gossip colum...
July 22, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Apply now for Chicago's Hooley
This September we will celebrate our 10th year of the Annual Irish American Movie Hooley at Wilmette Theatre just outside Chicago. This film festiv...
July 05, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Sergeant Terry Dunn's Career Load of Stories
Somebody the other day remarked to me that she was “not rich but blessed.” Some of us indeed are blessed with Irish blood and some doubly so with t...
June 24, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
10th Annual Movie Hooley promises to be best yet
Apply now for Chicago's Hooley
