• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Irish America

Irish America

Irish America

  • HOME
  • WHO WE ARE
    • ABOUT US
    • IRISH AMERICA TEAM
  • IN THIS ISSUE
  • HALL OF FAME
  • THE LISTS
    • BUSINESS 100
    • HALL OF FAME
    • HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES 50
    • WALL STREET 50
  • LIBRARY
  • TRAVEL
  • EVENTS
  • Browse Irish America’s issues from 1985 to today. 
  • Irish America's annual celebration of Irish in corporate America. Check out current and past honorees.
  • Irish America's annual celebration of Irish working in the financial sector. Check out current and past honorees.
  • Irish America's Power Women 2024.
  • From Mother Jones to Sinéad O'Connor – Rosemary Rogers profiles remarkable Irish women.
  • Stories and recipes for every ocassion by Edythe Preet.

IN THIS ISSUE

Dispatches from Massachusetts  

By Michael Quinlan Boston’s Revolutionary Irish Trail is Now Live With America 250 celebrations underway in 2026, Boston has a Revolutionary Irish Trail to chronicle Irish and Scots-Irish heroics in the American Revolution….

Read More

Hibernia – Sports

Irish Punters in American Football Daniel Whelan It’s shaping up to be a very exciting year for a group of Irish-born athletes in the U.S. In Wisconsin, Wicklow native…

Read More

IRISH AMERICA ARCHIVES

Chile’s Irish Flavor

Nancy Griffin travels to Chile and finds a beautiful country still celebrating its Irish founding…

MORE
Olympic Roundup

Sonia’s Silver Ireland brought home only one Olympic medal from the Sydney Games. The country’s…

MORE

Primary Sidebar

Featured Video

Featured Podcast

News from the Irish Post

  • Minister on two-day visit to Britain to engage with Irish community on diaspora strategy

    DIASPORA Minister Neale Richmond is in Britain this week to engage with members of the Irish comm...

  • President Zelenskyy thanks people of Ireland for ‘caring about Ukraine’

    UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the people of Ireland for “caring" about his ...

  • New bilingual traffic signs and road markings installed in Belfast

    NEW bilingual road and traffic signs have been installed in Belfast’s Gaeltacht Quarter. The sign...

  • Pedestrian dies following collision with van in Kilkenny

    A PEDESTRIAN has died after being involved in a collision with a van in Co. Kilkenny. The inciden...

July 23, 1803

In opposition to the 1800 Acts of Union, Irish nationalist and rebel Robert Emmet returned to Ireland, after attempting to secure aid from the French, to plan a rebellion. On the evening of July 23, 1803, a rising erupted in Dublin. The rebels attempted to seize Dublin Castle, but failed, and the rising only amounted to a large-scale riot. The British military was able to stop the riot, leaving fifty rebels dead and Emmet to hang on September 20, 1803.

Footer

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Subscribe

  • Subscribe
  • Give a Gift
  • Newsletter

Additional

  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2026 · IrishAmerica Child Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in