The United Irishmen and their American Legacy
When the rebellion of 1798 failed, many of The United Irishmen, including Thomas Addis Emmet,…
1916: Portraits and Lives
A Beautiful Tome
Unheralded men and women became leaders in the crucible of 1916. A new book by…
1916 – 2016: The Centenary
Welcome to the 1916 Centenary issue of Irish America. This special issue of Irish America…
1916 Events:
A Transcontinental Commemoration
The program for the 2016 U.S. commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising launched in…
1916 Memorials in the U.S.
Though the majority of memorials to the Easter Rising are on the East Coast, the…
30 Years Later: The Anglo-Irish Agreement
November of last year marked the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement,…
A Strike Against The Empire
Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute has produced a documentary on the Easter Rising that promises to…
Arlene Foster is N.I.’s
First Female First Minister
Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, the largest political party in the…
Boston and the Irish Rising
The battle for the hearts and minds of the Boston Irish took a sharp turn…
Civil Rights Ruling on Malaysian Massacre Has Implications for N.I.
The U.K. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in a Malaysian civil rights case has caused dramatic…
Constance Gore-Booth:
The Rebel Countess
Constance Gore-Booth may have married a Polish Count, but in her heart she was an…
Cork Newspapers were “Actors and Reporters” Following the Rising
An article written by Alan McCarthy, a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of History…
Dublin GPO Opens 1916 Visitors’ Center
A new immersive exhibit is slated to open at Dublin’s General Post Office in March…
Éamon de Valera: Man of Mystery
Éamon de Valera, the dominant political figure of Ireland’s 20th century, was an enigmatic figure…
Eoin MacNeill: The Man Who Cried Halt!
Eoin MacNeill (pictured above) tried to stop the Rising, but there would have been no…
First Model of Irish Unification Published
The first-ever independent, non-partisan study that models the economic implications of a politically and economically…
First Soldier Arrested for 1972
Bloody Sunday Deaths
This past November, detectives in County Antrim arrested a former British soldier who was involved…
First Trans-Atlantic Fiber-Optic
Cable Connects Ireland and US
Ireland and the U.S. are now connected through a brand new $300 million transatlantic fiber-optic…
First Word: “Two Hearts Beat as One”
“No New York. No America. No Easter Rising. It’s simple as that.” – Director of…
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
Induct Anne Anderson
Irish Ambassador to the U.S. Anne Anderson will become the first female member of the…
Hand in Hand for Freedom:
U.S. Labor and Irish Rebels
The trade union movement in America played a major role in Ireland’s struggle for freedom….
Ireland Launches Campaign to
Bring Emigrants Back
In early December of 2015, the Irish government launched a campaign to bring its emigrants…
Irish Eye on Hollywood:
“F is for Family”
Comedian Bill Burr has found inspiration for his next project in his Irish American roots….
Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Aidan Gillen’s Roundtable
Aidan Gillen (The Wire, Game of Thrones) sticks with the historical costume genre in Knights of…
Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Awards Season Highlights Irish Talent
It’s that time of year again in Hollywood. Everyone from critics’ associations to film review…
Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Colin Morgan Is on the Up
Armagh native Colin Morgan (above) is currently busy with two Hollywood movies as well as…
Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Driving Miss Daisy for the
21st Century
Californication actress Natascha McElhone, who uses her Irish mother’s name for professional purposes, is slated…
Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Fionnula Flanagan Returns to the Box Office
Fionnula Flanagan has already appeared in one movie slated for an early 2016 release and…
Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Mammal Gives Second Chances at Sundance
The Irish will be represented at the prestigious annual Sundance Film Festival. In Mammal, star Rachel Griffiths…
Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Wrestling onto the Big Screen
He was born Stephen Farrelly in Cabra, Dublin, and raised to speak fluent Irish, but…
Irish Miracle Baby
Zoe Ireland Drake, the American baby girl born just minutes after landing in Dublin on…
Irish Presidential Awards
Three Americans received Irish Presidential Distinguished Service Awards on December 3rd last year. Tom Moran…
Joe McGarrity: De Valera’s Man in America
“…the general awakening that was taking place in Ireland seemed to make us forget everything…
Kerry WWII Veteran Receives
France’s Highest Honor
Ninety-seven-year-old Kerry man John “Jack” Mahony was named a Chevalier de La Légion d’Honneur, France’s…
Michael Collins: From the GPO to Béal na mBláth
Michael Collins was born into a farming family near Clonakilty in County Cork in 1890….
New York:
A Home Away from Home For Irish Fenians
When Irish exiles needed a refuge, they swarmed to New York and established a hotbed…
Photo Album:
Discovering Rossa on Film
Growing up in New York City, there was always a formal photographic portrait of our…
Printing the Proclamation
The 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic has been called the most important document in…
Profiles in Courage: The Executed Leaders
The 16 men who were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising included the…
Review of Books
Irish Hunger and Migration: Myth, Memory and Memorialization Edited by Patrick Fitzgerald, Christine Kinealy, and Gerard…
Robert Emmet:
A Trailblazer for Irish Independence is Cast in Bronze
Within sight of the Irish Embassy is Kerry-born sculptor Jerome Connor’s famous memorial to Irish patriot Robert Emmet,…
Robert Emmet: A Symbol for Independence
Within sight of the Irish Embassy is Kerry-born sculptor Jerome Connor’s famous memorial to Irish patriot Robert Emmet,…
Roger Casement: The Last Martyr
Hanged by the British in 1916 for working with Germany and Irish nationalists in planning…
Sir Roger Casement:
Irish Nationalist & Humanitarian
Hanged by the British in 1916, he was deemed first among traitors to the Empire…
St. Patrick's Day Parades 2016
George Mitchell, the former senate majority leader (D – Maine) and Northern Ireland peace broker,…
The German Connection
As World War I loomed, the U.S. was wracked by political, ethnic, and religious tension. Most Americans…
The Irish Rebellion
in the Age of Cable News
Today world news is immediate but 100 years ago transmission depended on telegraph cables under…
The Poets’ Revolution
Three of the men who signed the Proclamation of the Irish Republic had published poetry…
The Rising: A Guided Tour
Take a journey around Dublin to relive the events and see the locations of the…
The Spy in the Castle
David Neligan, a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, acted as a valuable agent for…
Those We Lost
Rick Cluchey 1933 – 2015 On February 2, 1955, the man who would become one…
Waterford Artifact May Be
Oldest in Ireland
In mid-2015, a group of fishermen off the coast of Waterford inadvertently picked up what…
William Campbell’s Nobel Prize
Donegal native Dr. William Campbell was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work…
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Those We Lost
A tribute to those who have
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Tracing the history of traditional Irish food, drink, and celebration…..
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Photos and stories of our reader’s Irish ancestors….
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Photo Album:
Discovering Rossa on Film
Growing up in New York City, there was always a formal photographic portrait of our…