This cabbie had a bad Hack Day.



He didn't make it across 52th and Park.

St. Patrick's Day in New York City 3-17-07:

This was the place to be.


O'Lunney's of Times Square is the best pub in mid-town. It is owned by Hugh O'Lunney from Co. Cavan.


Someone showing off her rear end at O'Lunney's.

A better shot, demonstrating that the Irish language has made it to Times Square.

One way to get around the city.




James Brown was supposed to have played here on New Year's Eve.

My niece, Siobhan, step dancing with Black 47.

Here are the boy's, playing to 1000 fans.

I'm interviewing a young fan at the Black 47 concert. The concert was broadcast live on WBAI radio. You can listen to the show at www.wbai.org - go to the archives button on the left hand side and scroll down to liquid sound lounge, Sat March 17 ,7 pm till 9:30 , and enjoy the show.

A HACKS VIEW
OF IRISH NEW YORK





The shamrocks have gone up on the Brooklyn Borough Hall.



A banner bound for the Queens St. Patrick's Day Parade, from ground zero of the Irish American community in New York - Rocky Sullivan's at 29th and Lex.



The banner made it to Queens:



The youth take Irish Politics to the streets of Queens.





Where you go for your Irish cultural fix - the Irish Arts Center on the west side.





The Irish Famine Memorial in Battery Park City




This is the church that was built by the Famine Irish on the lower east side and is now to be torn down by the rich Catholic Diocese of New York.




Where the Irish literary giants stayed in New York.




Brendan Behan, writer and IRA man. Like the New York Fire Department, he was also banned from marching in the St. Patrick's Day parade because of his drinking exploits.



This street is named after Kenmare Co. Kerry, where a former New York Mayor was born.



This bus depot is named after Micheal Quill, a Kerry man, IRA man and founder of the TWU, the Transit Worker Union. He died after being released from prison for authorizing the 1966 transit strike.

This wall mural is in Harlem on 124th street between 2nd and 3d Ave. It is a tribute to the 10 Irish Republican men who died on hunger strike in 1981.

This street corner is named after Damian Meehan who died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11,2001. I was at his wake in the Bronx. His mother and father come from Co. Donegal. They rasied a big family in upper Manhattan, and had sons on the FDNY and NYPD. On 9-11 they stayed on the pile until they found their brother. I was a friend of the father Mike, who has since passed away.

Now, with Sirius Satellite radio, I can listen RTE ,Ireland's national radio, to keep in touch.