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Irish America magazine - Aug/Sept '03 issue: Gregory Peck, Barney Rosset, The Irish Brigade, John Walsh, The Magdalene Sisters, Patriotic Potatoes, Damien Rice, Paul Brady, Enya, A Very Special Olympics

The Magdalene Sisters

A disturbing movie by Peter Mullan on what happened to the "wayward" women of Ireland.

Damien Rice

Music Roundup, including Paul Brady's latest and Damien Rice's "graceful" debut O.

Quote Unquote

"As a man I feel Irish. As an actor I feel Jewish" - Harrison Ford on his Russian/Irish roots.

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Robert Brennan

Dublin-born Robert Brennan is a vice president with Goldman Sachs, a company that has 22,000 employees and revenues of $16 billion worldwide. His responsibilities include working as the sector head of the financials team and as a senior position trader in Listed Equity Block Trading.

He began his career in 1988 with Merrill Lynch as a junior position trader. He moved up to senior position trader and remained at the company for 14 years before moving to his present position.

Brennan attended Stonehill College where he graduated with a BSBA, cum laude, and has since created the Brennan Family Scholarship for an Irish student there. He is also a benefactor of the Irish Repertory Theater.
Brennan is married and lives in Manhattan. He has one daughter, Lauren.

James W. Cahill

Executive Vice President and Co-Head of fixed income division of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. James Cahill leads integrated sales teams in high-grade corporate bonds, mortgages and U.S. Government Securities and Agencies. Prior to joining the firm, Cahill was a managing director in fixed income at Lehman Brothers for eight years. He was also with Salomon Brothers for 14 years, where he managed integrated sales groups in the bank area. He received a BS from Fordham University.

Cahill is a fourth-generation Irish-American with roots in County Cork, and his wife Kathleen is a first-generation Irish-American whose parents were from Roscommon. The Cahills have five children.

Christopher M. Condron

Christopher “Kip” Condron, president and chief executive officer of AXA Financial, Inc., is also a member of the AXA Group Management Board. Condron joined AXA immediately following his role as president and COO of The Mellon Financial Corporation and chairman and CEO of the Dreyfus Corporation.

Condron began his career at C.S. McKee and Co. before forming his own financial planning firm, Condron Associates. When the firm was acquired by AYCO Corporation, he became co-president. In 1989, Condron joined The Boston Company, now Mellon Private Asset Management, where he was named executive vice president.In 1995, he took over the responsibility for the Dreyfus Corporation.

Condron received his bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Scranton where he is a former trustee and heads the President’s Business Council. He is a member of the Investment Company Institute’s Board of Governors and its Executive Committee, a member of the Financial Services Roundtable, and a director and treasurer of The American Ireland Fund.Married with three children, Condron is a third-generation Irish-American with roots in Donegal and Cork.

Robert L. Cunningham

Currently serving as a governor on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), Robert Cunningham is a managing director in the Equity Markets Division of Merrill Lynch. He assumed his senior management responsibilities on the NYSE and American Stock Exchange floor operations in 1996. He has been a member of the NYSE since 1983 and a partner at Merrill Lynch since 1987. He was also on the Board of Directors of Merrill Lynch Specialists from 1995-1998.
Cunningham remains very active, currently serving on the NYSE Arbitration Committee and NYSE Technology Committee. He is also on the Board of Directors of the NYSE Luncheon Club and St. Ignatius grammar school. He was raised in Woodside, Queens and attended St. Sebastian’s grammar school, Msgr. McClancy High School and is a 1981 graduate of St. John’s University.
An active member of The American Ireland Fund, Cunningham resides in Ridgewood, New Jersey with his wife Maeve and their three sons.

Denis Curran

Director and President–International of Bank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM), Denis Curran is responsible for this investment management arm of the Bank of Ireland Group, managing over $46 billion in global securities. His job includes overseeing all of BIAM’s operations outside of Ireland. Prior to assuming his current position in 1999, he was president of BIAM’s North American operation. Curran is also director and president of the New Ireland Fund (a closed-end country fund), and a director of Iridian Asset Management, a specialist US Equity manager based in Westport, Connecticut.
Curran began his career in 1974 with the Irish Development Authority (IDA), a branch of the Irish Government. His initial assignment was Project Executive based in Dublin. He progressed through the IDA to become director of its New York office, responsible for inward investment by North American companies into Ireland.
Curran resides in Cos Cob, Connecticut with his wife and their three daughters. He is a native of Belfast and is an Economics graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast.

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