Photo Album: “Give Me a Wee Step”
In this photograph taken in 1925, my mother Kathleen (far left), her mother and father Sam and Ellen Bell, and 10 other siblings pose as they leave their home in Crossgar, County Down….
New England’s Irish “Witch”
Goody Ann Glover was hanged as a witch on November 16, 1688. Could it have been that it was because she was a Catholic whose first language was Irish? Had one not known…
Ireland’s New Drinking
& Smoking Laws
On January 1, Ireland is expected to become the first European country to ban smoking…
Sláinte: The Queen of Flowers
One Sunny June afternoon several years ago, I stood on a Wicklow cliff overlooking the…