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Culture Club
Jemma Publications
Dublin - Ireland
| September 2005 |
Ireland's pre-Celtic Tiger trend of emigration has come to an end. The number of work-permit applications from international staff in Ireland rose from 6,250 in 1999 to a massive 47,551 in 2003. In addition, 23,000 workers arrived in the State after the first three months of EU enlargement in 2004, with 50,0000 arriving from the EU accession countries toward the year's end.
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Hunger haunts borough's immigrants
TimesLedger Newspapers
Queens - New York
| March 27, 2007 |
Dolores, a 28-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean and mother of three children, says she must walk twice a week to two food pantries in her Astoria neighborhood because her husband's recent wages are too low to provide food for their family.
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Boro libraries host readings of city taxi driver's poems
TimesLedger Newspapers
Queens - New York
| February 15, 2007 |
When Davidson Garrett was young, he would run into his high school library in Louisiana seeking protection from the lunch-time bullies. His interests in the arts were strange and different in the eyes of his classmates, so they hit him to knock the strangeness out of him.
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Tapestries of Healing
TimesLedger Newspapers
Queens - New York
| February 22, 2007 |
As her husband lay on the hospital bed with an oxygen tube strapped around his face, a result of his esophageal cancer, Manhattan-resident Betty Vera took a photograph of him in an attempt to preserve his presence.
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The Art of Knowing yourself
TimesLedger Newspapers
Queens - New York
| April 12, 2007 |
Ishley Park remembers the shame she felt when her parents would come home smelling like fish. Unlike her friends' parents, who held professional jobs as professors or doctors, her South Korean immigrant parents owned two fish stores: one in Whitestone and the other in Yonkers.
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Bayside poet uses humor against the highfalutin
TimesLedger Newspapers
Queens - New York
| April 12, 2007 |
Ring. Ring. "Greetings, O seeker of knowledge, this is Robert. Leave it at the beep and perhaps I'll acknowledge it." Beep.
It's no surprise that Bayside resident Robert Dunn lives for poetry. Rhyme, pattern and rhythm are found in every aspect of his life. Yet, though he seems to have internalized poetry, Dunn says the poetry world has not internalized him - it has kept him at a distance.
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