2014 Wall Street 50
For seventeen years, Irish America has sought out and recognized the best and the brightest…
A Course Called Quirky
Tom Coyne, whose 16-week jaunt through Ireland’s 38 seaside golf courses led to the best-selling…
Chicago Actress Molly Glynn Killed in Storm
Molly Glynn, a renowned, red-headed, and slightly subversive Chicago stage actress, died September 6th at…
Colin Barrett Wins 2014
Rooney Prize for Fiction
Irish short story writer and Mayo native Colin Barrett was recently awarded the 2014 Rooney…
Croke Park Classic Puts
American Football Front
and Center in Dublin
It’s not football season without the Croke Park Classic in Dublin. This year’s match-up saw…
Donegal Island For Sale
For €175,000, a little over $225,000 at the current exchange rate, a 96-acre island in…
Easing Tax-Free Shopping for
North Americans in Ireland
A new card developed by FEXCO, a top finance company headquartered in Killorglin, Co. Kerry…
Eliza Lynch: The Uncrowned
Queen of Paraguay
The Cork-born beauty who was the mistress of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay, and…
Ian Paisley
The North’s Dark Star Became a Prince of Peace in a lifelong journey from firebrand to…
Ireland Finishes Fourth, but Fighting
The Women’s Rugby World Cup took place in France in August, and the Irish team,…
Ireland’s Worst Winter
in 140 Years
Continuing within the trajectory of global climate change, it was revealed by NUI Maynooth climatologists…
Irish American Inspired the
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
If you found yourself staring down an ice cold bucket of water ready to be…
Irish App Aims to Ease Travel
for People with Disabilities
Access Earth, a new app developed by a trio of computer science students and a…
Irish Art and Architecture: After Kells
The Book of Kells is often thought of as the embodiment of the Irish visual…
Irish Eye on Hollywood
1. Dublin native Samantha Power is now a high-ranking member of the Obama administration, currently…
Jackie Kennedy Letters Returned to Kennedys
The private letters of Jacqueline Kennedy to an Irish priest caused controversy last May when…
Kathleen Lynch:
A Commitment to Excellence
As Chief Operating Officer for UBS Group Americas and Wealth Management Americas, Kathleen Lynch is…
Knock Shrine Turns 135
The story of one of the world’s most famous Marian Shrines began 135 years ago…
Maria Walsh:
The Gay New Rose of Tralee
The annual Rose of Tralee festival concluded in August with the crowning of a winner,…
Mayo Brothers Selling
Checkpoint Charlie Shares
Through a series of debt purchases and security offerings, it turns out that one of…
NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Allows Gay Groups to March
A decision announced in early September by the New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Committee,…
Obama Criticizes Infamous
Irish Tax Loopholes
This past July President Barack Obama had many heads swirling when he went after American…
Paris’s Irish Cultural Center
Just around the corner from the Pantheon in Paris’s 5th Arrondissement is the former Collège…
Photo Album:
Holy Name Weddings
An Irish-American Family Tradition Lives On. Now, one might think that getting married for the…
Photo Essay:
Dreams of the Old Country
The haunting distinctive photographs of emigrant Richard Fitzgerald When I began taking photographs of Ireland…
Rebranding Limerick
As Ireland’s first City of Culture, Limerick is positioning itself to become a new capital…
Review of Books
Non-Fiction The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses By Kevin Birmingham With…
Roots: Lynch
One of the 100 most common surnames in Ireland, the Lynch name derives from several…
Rory McIlroy Wins PGA
Championship
Rory McIlroy, the world-renowned Northern Irish golfer, won the 96th annual PGA championship on August…
Ryanair Announces $22
Billion Boeing Purchase
The Dublin-based budget airline Ryanair announced in early September the purchase of 100 new models…
Sláinte: I Love Pie!
In one of my favorite movies – Michael, a tale of Michael the Archangel visiting…
TCD Researchers Help Make
Schizophrenia Breakthrough
A recent study published in the journal Nature has confirmed 108 locations within the human…
The Big Thrill
Anne Rice and Michael Connelly spoke to Mary Pat Kelly at the Ninth Annual Thriller…
The First Word:
Making the Most of
What You’ve Got
“Being Irish means being the best you can be by making the most of what…
The Son of a Monaghan
Footballer Is Now an NFL
Starting Kicker
If the only thing your fantasy roster is missing is a young Irish kicker, we’ve…
Those We Lost
Jeremy Ullick Brown 1939 – 2014 Jeremy Ullick Browne, the 11th Marquess of Sligo and…
Twenty Years After
the IRA Ceasefire
August 31 marked the 20th anniversary of the 1994 IRA ceasefire that paved the way…
US Potato Consumption Falls
Say it isn’t so! Sales and consumption of the potato have drastically fallen in America….
Virtual Reality for Ulysses
Upon completion of his masterpiece Ulysses, James Joyce told his French translator Jacques Benoîst-Méchin, “I’ve…
We Are Not Ourselves:
Matthew Thomas’s Accomplished Debut
Matthew Thomas, whose debut novel is receiving rave reviews, talks to Tom Deignan. Before he…
What Are You Like?
Glenn Keogh
Actor Glenn Keogh takes our questions and talks about his favorite places, missing home, and…
Whatever Happened
to Launt Thompson?
How one of the most important post-Civil War sculptors died in obscurity and is buried…
World War I Centenary
Commemoration in Belgium
July 28 marked the one hundred year anniversary of outbreak of the Great War, and…
Cover Story
News
The latest updates from Irish America’s most recent print issue….
MORE
Hibernia
News from Ireland and happenings in Irish America….
MORE
Those We Lost
A tribute to those who have
passed on…..
MORE
Slainte!
Tracing the history of traditional Irish food, drink, and celebration…..
MORE
Photo Album
Photos and stories of our reader’s Irish ancestors….
MORE
Photo Album:
Holy Name Weddings
An Irish-American Family Tradition Lives On. Now, one might think that getting married for the…