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A big blog of Irish Literature

- *Why was James Joyce’s daughter Lucia written out of history?* Annabel Abbs, author of The Joyce Girl, asks why was Lucia Joyce, a beautiful woman and ta...
absolutely blogalicious

The best people -
Album Art. So Cheesy it's good

Magnificent -
Art for the Blog of It

Railway art -
Art for the Pop of It

Pop artist makes treasures for Americans, using their trash - Pop artist makes treasures for Americans, using their trash By Jessica Farrish For The Fayette Tribune A premier New York "cerealist" artist is in We...
Astronomy for me

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Chicago Gangland: It happened here

George "Babe" Tuffanelli - George "Babe" Tuffanelli was a powerful mobster who ran Chicago's southside for Al Capone. Tuffanelli was born in Italy and came to America with his broth...
Chicago’s Mob Bosses: From Accardo to Zizzo

'Idol's Eye' Movie Canceled: Robert De Niro and Robert Pattinson Thriller - [image: http://st.blogads.com/657171016/c.gif]'Idol's Eye' Movie Canceled: Robert De Niro and Robert Pattinson Thriller By Zac Gille 'Idol's Eye' producti...
Child of the Sixties Forever

James Rosenquist, Pop Art Pioneer, Dies at 83 - By KEN JOHNSON APRIL 1, 2017 James Rosenquist, who helped define Pop Art in its 1960s heyday with his boldly scaled painted montages of commercial i...
Connecticut History

Light houses in Connecticut -
DC Behind the Monuments

DC of old -
Emerson Said It

Ecstasy of Influence - Ralph Waldo Emerson’s American poetry. BY DAN CHIASSON In January of 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s firstborn child, Waldo, contracted scarlet fever and die...
Foster Childrens Blog

Feds punish state for failing foster care standards - Feds say too many kids are re-entering the system. By Brandon Stahl Star Tribune JULY 10, 2015 — 11:36AM More than 200 children have gone through Kate a...
Go ahead, admit it, you want to read this book

Pulp -
God, How I hated the 70's

John Tuohy's MY WRITERS SITE: Cool - John Tuohy's MY WRITERS SITE: Cool: ABOUT THE AUTHOR John William Tuohy is a writer who lives in Washington DC. He holds an MFA in writing from Lindenwood ...
Good chowda

Saratoga Springs chowder fans fill streets and bellies - By Jennie Grey SARATOGA SPRINGS The city's 16th annual Chowderfest drew a hearty crowd from all over the Capital Region, eager to sample unique chowder ...
Good Lobsta!

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Great Writing for the Blog of It

Do You Think Practicing on Trading Simulators Is a Good Use of Time? Check Out the Mess I Made Today - I've written several articles in the past about my relative distaste for e-mini trading simulators. I had a trade running on a simulator account today and ...
In Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener

The Hot Wiener: A Rhode Island Icon - The Hot Wiener: A Rhode Island Icon By Grace Lentini Hot wieners are firmly planted in Rhode Island’s culinary psyche. They’re to the Ocean State what che...
Its All Greek Mythology To Me

Exterior of the Roman Basilica at Volubilis, Morocco - The basilica was used for the administration of justice and the governance of the city. Completed during the reign of Macrinus in the early 3rd century, i...
Latin: My Death is Greatly Exaggerated

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Mob Cops, Lawyers and Informants and Fronts

Assistant District Attorney Burton B_ Turkus -
Mobsters in the News

Imago Summer, 1971. A short story by John William Tuohy - *Imago: *An idealized image of someone, formed in childhood and persisting in later life. From Latin imago (image). Ultimately from the Indo-Europea...
Mull It Over

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Music & Dance for the Art of It

Yeah! -
Music for the Blog of It

'Here comes the sun': Does pop music have a 'rhythm of the rain?' - Weather is frequently portrayed in popular music, with a new scientific study finding over 750 popular music songs referring to weather, the most common ...
Off Beat History Blog

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Photography for the Blog of it

Why Do We Say "Cheese" When We're Having Our Photo Taken? - We're not sure when or where a photographer first asked his or her subjects to state the name of the delicious dairy product, but we do know that when you...
Psychologically Relevant

Here are 60 sample pages from my book, “No time to Say Goodbye” available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble Books. - http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/0692361294/ In 1962, six year old John Tuohy, his two brothers and two sisters entered Connecticu...
Pulp Fiction Trash!!

Pulp Fiction -
RECIPES WE WOULD DIE FOR

The Dark Side of the Pie: Heroin, Mob Cheese, and New York Pizza - Mad Sam DeStefano BY NICK ROSE Everything has a dark side—even pizza. Five years ago, John “Johnny Pizza” Porcello was arrested and charged with racket...
Roger Touhy, Gangster

Mat Kolb - He was born in Chicago on September 2nd, 1891 to Mathias, born in Germany, and Josephine Corbett of Illinois. He was one of eight children, the eldest...
Sculpture This and Sculpture That

Stepdaughter of famous New York sculptor John Chamberlain jumps to her death from exclusive New York's apartment on 5th Avenue - • Phoebe Fairweather, 23, was stepdaughter of late artist John Chamberlain • She jumped to her death from elite 800 5th Avenue in New...
Shakespeare

17 Shakespeare Films Worth Watching - Though there’s nothing like seeing Shakespeare live on stage, the magic of cinema can bring new light to the Bard's classic works—and can allow us to vie...
The Prohibition Gangsters in Pictures

Bugs Moran -
The Art of War (Clever huh?)

When propaganda displaces democracy - By Nick Osborne GLOBE STAFF AUGUST 30, 2015 WEIMER PURSELL ILLUSTRATION FOR US GOVERNMENT This anti-Nazi propaganda poster encouraged US citizens to conse...
The Chicago Mob

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The Connecticut Irish

John Tuohy's MY WRITERS SITE: Cool - John Tuohy's MY WRITERS SITE: Cool: ABOUT THE AUTHOR John William Tuohy is a writer who lives in Washington DC. He holds an MFA in writing from Lindenwood ...
The International Irishman

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The Irish American Trail

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The Irish in their Own Words

The Boston Pilot, August 26th, 1854 - "A man is taken sick with the cholera. He dies without the sacraments because he lives in a society of drunkards who are thinking about the wake. The cle...
The Irish States of America

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The Mob Across America

Beware the queen of spades (and other facts of Mafia life) - On Sunday Ideas ran a story by scholar Diego Gambetta about a newly discovered, encrypted document that details the secret initiation ceremony of the mob...
The Mob in Pictures

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The Mob in Vegas

THE LAST FAMILY SECRET: 30 YEARS AFTER THE SPILOTRO HIT - An ABC7 I-Team Investigation EMBED By Chuck Goudie and Barbara Markoff and Christine Tressel Friday, June 24, 2016 CHICAGO (WLS) -- On June 23, 30 years ag...
The Rarified Tribe

Where in the World to Eat - Conde Nast Traveler Where in the World to Eat September 20, 2016 Courtesy Alden & Harlow Two hundred and seven of the greatest restaurants around the globe...
The Upscale Traveler

Upscale locations for destination weddings - By Jeri Clausing Like most things luxury, the focus in weddings has become about unique experiences, both for the happy couple and their guests. And whet...
The Wee Blog of Irish Blessing and so on

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The Wee Book of Irish Jokes

FROM THE IRISH TIMES NEWSPAPER - Two Englishmen, who were travelling along Shropshire, wanted to know the way to Shrewsbury. They happened to see an Irishman in the distance, so one said ...
The Wee Book of Irish Recipes

Christmas Ice Pudding - *Christmas Ice Pudding * Serves 8 4 ounces granulated sugar ¼ pint water 4 egg yolks 1 pint heavy cream 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 ounces toasted almonds, chopped ...
The Wee Book of Irish-American Gangsters

Car for planned gangland hit stolen by mobsters linked to Fat Freddie Thompson - Ken Foy A mob that specialises in stealing top-of-the range cars for Dublin's most dangerous criminals are suspected of stealing a car that was to be use...
The writers spot blog

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Tuohy's of The World

November 25th in Irish History - November 25th 1713 – The second Irish parliament of Queen Anne sits from this date to 24 December. The Whig Alan Brodrick is elected Speaker for the second...
Washington Oddities and other interesting stuff

The Pentagon, the worlds largest office building -
We Only Kill Each Other

The Stolen Years by Roger Touhy - *ROGER TOUHY* *The Stolen Years* *THESTOLENYEARS* By Roger Touhy with Ray Brennan Copyright 1959, by Pennington Press, Inc., Clevelan...
Whacked: One Hundred Years of Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Mob

Site of the Crazy Joe Gallo murder in Little Italy - The Gallo Brothers