Mike Houlihan

Mike "Houli" Houlihan is a former columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and Irish American News, host of Hibernian Radio every Sat. night on Global Irish Radio, founder of the Annual Irish American Movie Hooley film festival, director, filmmaker, and Chairman of Hibernian Media

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Chicago Calling: Irish Radio's Benefit Lady
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Chicago Calling: Irish Radio's Benefit Lady
When I was a kid I loved listening to The Irish Hour on the radio and hearing the Irish ladies announce the benefits in a high pitched brogue, “We’...
Calling Irish-American filmmakers of 2023! Calling Irish-American filmmakers of 2023!
This September we will celebrate our ninth year of The Annual Irish American Movie Hooley at Wilmette Theatre just outside Chicago. This film festi...
Chicago Calling: The Irish builder shaping Windy City skyline
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Chicago Calling: The Irish builder shaping Windy City skyline
Mike Meagher is President of McHugh Construction, and one of those responsible for most of the iconic buildings that make up our Chicago skyline, i...
CHICAGO CALLING: Hometown hero who has the 'plumb' job at Windy City St Patrick's parade
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CHICAGO CALLING: Hometown hero who has the 'plumb' job at Windy City St Patrick's parade
“The plumber protects the health of our nation.” Albert Einstein 1954. Hizzoner Mayor Richard J. Daley asked his childhood friend Stephen Bailey, B...
Chicago Calling: Áine's beating the ancestral drum, from Tyrone to Tinley Park!
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Chicago Calling: Áine's beating the ancestral drum, from Tyrone to Tinley Park!
Fans of “Derry Girls”, the hilarious TV show out of the North of Ireland that ran for years with the wacky antics of a group of Catholic school gir...
CHICAGO CALLING: Ink in his veins - Jim O'Shea's fight for the front page
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CHICAGO CALLING: Ink in his veins - Jim O'Shea's fight for the front page
Jim O’Shea is a Quixotic inspiration, even more so because he is a septuagenarian. A long-time Managing Editor at The Chicago Tribune and later the...
CHICAGO CALLING: Alamo Duke Lynch - Remember HIS battle!
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CHICAGO CALLING: Alamo Duke Lynch - Remember HIS battle!
In retrospect, it’s easy to see the hand of God working in our lives. James “Duke” Lynch grew up in St. Philip Neri parish in Chicago. He earned th...
CHICAGO CALLING: Fr Tom overcame loss to minister to Windy City faithful
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CHICAGO CALLING: Fr Tom overcame loss to minister to Windy City faithful
How do we know if we’re in the middle of a personal, emotional, and spiritual crisis in our lives? You’re a 16-year-old at Marist High School in 19...
Houlihan's hooley makes Ireland return
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Houlihan's hooley makes Ireland return
I’m relaxing with room service in my suite at the Fitzpatrick Castle in Killiney, just outside Dublin. The rest of our group returned to Chicago ve...
Catherine O’Connell, Chicago's Celtic Nightingale
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Catherine O’Connell, Chicago's Celtic Nightingale
I dropped by a funeral the other day to visit an old friend. Sabina O’Donohue was 94 and had emigrated from Ballyglass, County Mayo, Ireland to Chi...
CHICAGO CALLING: Shout-out for Charlie Carey and the Southside Irish
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CHICAGO CALLING: Shout-out for Charlie Carey and the Southside Irish
“You can take the kid out of the Southside, but you’ll never get the Southside out of that kid!” That’s an ancient Chicago epigram that celebrates ...
Chicago Calling: Chief O'Neill's, the pub you've been practicing for
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Chicago Calling: Chief O'Neill's, the pub you've been practicing for
Almost 24 years ago an elegant Irish pub took up residence in the Avondale neighborhood on Chicago’s Elston Avenue, in the former home of the infam...

 

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