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February/March 2015

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100,000 Protesters March Against Water Charges

Up to 100,000 protesters opposed to the introduction of water charges brought Dublin to a…

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Accolades for Ward’s Irish Music Archives

Following the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History, the…

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An Ancestral Tour of Stephen Colbert’s Family

It was a damp morning in late February 2008 when the phone rang. Harvard scholar…

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Compadre Plant Matrix

Botanists at Trinity College Dublin have launched a database that documents significant ‘life events’ for nearly…

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Follow the Music: Advice from a November Holiday in Ireland

Liz Cunningham-Purchia, her boyfriend Tim Gannon, his sister Clare, and her husband Jano Cabrera, all Washington, D.C. transplants,…

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Gemma Hayes:
Crowd-sourcing Her Sound

The Irish musician, singer-songwriter, and composer Gemma Hayes on making music her way. I’ve never done…

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Golden Globe Moments and Oscar Nominations

At the Golden Globes in January,  Michael Keaton took home the Best Actor in a…

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Governor Martin O’Malley
Grants Stays of Execution

Maryland governor Martin O’Malley announced late December that he would commute the execution sentence of the last four death…

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Governor Martin O’Malley Grants Stays of Execution

Maryland governor Martin O’Malley announced late December that he would commute the execution sentence of the last four death…

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His Irish Table

Growing up, Cathal Armstrong learned that a man’s place was in the kitchen. From an early age,…

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Hop Into Dublin

Is there a better way to take in Ireland’s capital than sitting back with coffee…

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Hunger: Tragedy, Comedy, Both?

The British broadcaster Channel 4 plans to create a sitcom based on a script by…

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IACI Gifts Irish Collection to Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University

The Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University recently received over 4,000 books, historical documents and…

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Irish Eye On Hollywood

1As television dramas become more prestigious, Irish acting talent continues to flock to both cable…

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Irish Rep Stages Da at New Home

The beloved Irish Repertory Theatre on West 22nd Street in Manhattan has been all but…

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Irish Win Smarter Planet Challenge

A project using smart technology to help the plight of the humble honey bee has…

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John Duddy: Actor

Middleweight champion John Duddy on hanging up his gloves.  In 2011, John Duddy retired from…

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John McDermott:
Golf Hall of Famer

John McDermott is finally getting his due over a hundred years after he became the…

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Khloe Kardashian Rocks Irish Design

Khloe Kardashian looked fierce wearing a Theia gown at the Golden Globes E! Entertainment after party. The…

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New Edition of John Kerr's "Cardigan Bay" (Review)

As a work-a-day archival historian, I am generally allergic to historical fiction. But occasionally I…

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NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House Annual Gala

Award-winning writer Peter Quinn and McGraw Hill financial executive Ted Smyth will receive the Seamus Heaney Award…

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Photo Album: John Harrington

John Harrington My great-great-grandfather John Harrington’s family had probably been in…

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Project Children Draws to a Close

Project Children’s 40th anniversary celebration in Washington D.C. in September brought to a close an…

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Reflections in Bere Island

A community of healers gathers for a retreat on the role of spirituality in healing. Bere…

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Review of Books

FICTION Nora Webster By Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín’s latest novel Nora Webster finds the gifted…

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Rising Sea Levels A Danger for Ireland

In a global warming special on RTÉ’s environment series Eco Eye, experts warned about the…

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Roots: The Macs

This issue’s Roots column is slightly different from the traditional format. Instead of looking at…

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Shannon Gaels: Field of Dreams

The Shannon Gaels GAA Club in New York is one step closer to building its…

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Sláinte! Love Mór

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Edythe Preet gives us the story of Áine,…

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The Abbey: 110 Years, 110 Moments

In a fitting public tribute to Lady Gregory’s call for the Abbey Theatre “to bring…

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The Girls Are Alright

Five years after the tragic loss of their mother and sister, the five Murray daughters and their father,…

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The President’s New Year Message

President Michael D. Higgins’s Christmas New Year message, broadcast from Aras on Uchtairan on December…

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The Things They Carried

What more fascinatingly intimate look into the lives of soldiers of WWI than a glimpse…

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Those We Lost

Jackie Healy-Rae 1931 – 2014 Following a long illness, Former Fianna Fáil TD for South…

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U.S. Lifts Ban on Irish Beef

The U.S. agreed last year to lift the ban on Irish beef. The ban had…

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What Are You Like? Mary Pat Kelly

Author Mary Pat Kelly weaves historical characters such as Maud Gonne, William Butler Yeats, Countess…

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Winter Solstice in Newgrange

There were 30,532 entries for a lottery to experience Winter Solstice 2014 at Newgrange in…

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An Ancestral Tour of Stephen Colbert’s Family

News
The latest updates from Irish America’s most recent print issue….
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Hibernia
News from Ireland and happenings in Irish America….
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Those We Lost
A tribute to those who have passed on…..
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Slainte!
Tracing the history of traditional Irish food, drink, and celebration…..
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Photo Album
Photos and stories of our reader’s Irish ancestors….
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Photo Album: John Harrington

John Harrington My great-great-grandfather John Harrington’s family had probably been in…

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