Hawkins finds home in Buffalo
On a quiet week, 60 hours. That’s one estimate of the time Conor Hawkins spends at the five-star Curtiss Hotel, the Banshee pub and the Sky Bar in ...
May 14, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Buffalo moving to the next level with Joyce treasure troves
The right person, in the right place, at the right time. That in essence explains how the University at Buffalo came to have the largest James Joyc...
May 13, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Jeseque wants to play her part
Asked what his book “Flight of the Eternal Emperor” is about, James Rogers replied, “Atonement on the part of Jeseque, fear of death on the part of...
May 06, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Lynch is enjoying his New York acting career
Kevin Oliver Lynch once aspired to be a doctor. Then he figured out that what he really wanted was to play one on TV – and especially in something ...
April 22, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Jesuits were impressed with new Pope Francis I in 2013
The week that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in March 2013, two fellow members of the Society of Jesus, aka the Jesuits, spoke to ...
April 21, 2025
by Peter McDermott
The Gospel of Luke and the call to do justice
"Holy Week is always hot here, but the current temperatures of 100 Fahrenheit are more penance than we need, even during Lent!” So the Rev. Joseph ...
April 16, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Falcon's take on 15-year run
One afternoon in late December 1983, Augusto Guillermo “Willy” Falcon and several members of his organization went to see the newly released “Scarf...
April 09, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Jack O'Connell, proud Teamster, Screen Actors Guild member, 81
Jack O’Connell worked many stints as a barman during his life, and he played one several times on TV and in the movies. But O’Connell, who died at ...
March 28, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Unlikeliest of heroes return
In his 2023 novel, “My Father’s House,” Joseph O’Connor brought two Irish wartime heroes back to life. One of them, Hugh O’Flaherty, a monsignor or...
March 26, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Mysticism is under-examined
In the planning of a move from his long-time Paris apartment during the winter of 1938-39, James Joyce radically downsized his personal library. “I...
March 19, 2025
by Peter McDermott
From despised to acclaimed
“As the twenty-first century opened, Irish was everywhere all at once—on television, the internet, stages, screens, and bestseller lists,” Marion R...
March 14, 2025
by Peter McDermott
The buck doesn't stop anymore
Harry S. Truman was famously from Independence, Mo. He lived much of his life there, and it’s where the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Muse...
March 12, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Falcon's take on 15-year run
Jack O'Connell, proud Teamster, Screen Actors Guild member, 81
Unlikeliest of heroes return
Mysticism is under-examined
From despised to acclaimed
The buck doesn't stop anymore
