Sophie Savage and her 15-year-old Irish-bred gelding Two Tone Ted score an emotional win in the Petplan Novice Bronze Winter Area Festival Championship.
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Des Moines School Board got an earful from angry parents, students, and staff Tuesday night. A standing-room-only crowd filled the school board chambers to speak out against the district’s decision to cut 42 “community school coordinator” positions (CSC’s). CSC’s work as liaisons between parents and schools in attempt to keep […]
Earlier this month, three program coordinators spoke with KCCI and said they would be laid off, and the program's 42 full-time positions would be reduced next year.
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Considering the Irish-American influence on U.S. Catholicism, it makes sense that someone of Irish descent – John Gilmary Shea – undertook to preserve much of the existing knowledge of the beginnings of American Catholicism. A prolific writer and dogged rescuer of rare manuscripts, Shea became known as the “father of American Catholic history.” At this point, however, his name receives rather little attention.
Shea was born in New York City on July 22, 1824. His mother came from an established New England family of part-Irish lineage, and his father was a native of County Limerick who emigrated to the U.S. at age 25 and later served as principal of the Columbia College grammar school in New York City. In this same school, the younger Shea received his early education. A sickly youth, those who knew him well “realized that only the greatest care would carry him to mature manhood,” wrote Peter Guilday in his book