I pass by office workers exiting the Freedom Tower and tourists milling around the 9/11 Memorial in New York’s Financial District on my way to meet Laura Colgan, the editor for the Irish Star, the fledgling media outlet with aspirations to be “the voice of Irish America”.  Around a tenth of New Yorkers claim Irish heritage and carved into the black marble that surrounds the memorial’s four-sided waterfall are the names of eighteen Irish citizens who were killed on a day that now divides modern America into before and after 9/11. While the decades of Irish moving en-masse to America…

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