The loveliest of all

The loveliest of all

I’ve spent all of my adult life thinking everyone knew the words to the Irish Rover’s classic song, “The Unicorn.” As it turns out, it was mostly just the crowd at Hegarty’s Pub on the Marquette campus back in the crazy 1980s. Still that song made a great theme for our float at a very [...]

May the road rise to meet you, and may you never have to eat my corned beef again

May the road rise to meet you, and may you never have to eat my corned beef again

It looked so easy when the Quinn family served it up, so tender when the Duffys did. But, ask a Biskupic née Kostelnik to cook corned beef and you get a gristly mess. St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland, and I celebrated by boiling all the flavor out of my corned beef [...]

Our Irish eyes were smiling (and our Polish ones were too) at the Southside Irish Parade

Our Irish eyes were smiling (and our Polish ones were too) at the Southside Irish Parade

Sure and Begorrah we had a great time Sunday afternoon at the Southside Irish Parade. The sun and the spirits of the Kennedy and Mackey families smiled down on us as we found a spot on Western Avenue along with 200,000 of our closest friends. With more than 100 entries representing nearly every parish, union, [...]