For the 9th year in a row, Tourism Ireland has won the Best Destination Award from Travel Weekly’s Reader’s Choice Awards. Travel Weekly is the leading newspaper for American travel agents and professionals and its thousands of readers voted for the various categories over the summer. Beating off tough competition from European hotspots like Italy, France, Greece, Spain, and … [Read more...] about Tourism Ireland Wins Travel Weekly’s Best Destination Award
Hibernia News: Bones Found in Montreal Linked to Famine Victims
By Emily Moriarty
“The first things they found were buttons, and then they found pieces of artifacts like clay pipes which they figured were from the people who were doing the burials. Then they found the bones – four children, three teenagers, and seven adults,” recalls Victor Boyle. The bones were unearthed in 2019, when the Canadian railway system began digging about the Black Stone Monument … [Read more...] about Hibernia News: Bones Found in Montreal Linked to Famine Victims
Hibernia: Writers on Writers
Kirwan Honored It was a big night for a true Irish renaissance man back in October when the Irish American Writers & Artists (IAW&A) group gathered at Rosie O’Grady’s in Manhattan to celebrate Larry Kirwan – author, musician, activist, and more – as the winner of this year’s Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award. “From the Bells of Hell bar to Broadway is no easy … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Writers on Writers
Hibernia: Irish Eye on Hollywood
By Tom Deignan
The Irish Roots of Yellowstone One of the surprise hits of TV’s streaming era is the Kevin Costner neo-Western Yellowstone. Now, fans of the show will be getting a look at the Dutton clan’s origin story –which features an Irish immigrant in a central role. The new Paramount TV adventure series, entitled 1923, stars show biz legends Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, the … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Irish Eye on Hollywood
Hibernia: News from Ireland and Irish America
Written by Sharon Ní Chonchúir and Emily Moriarty
Advocate for Women's Health Dies Ireland lost an outstanding advocate for women’s health when Vicky Phelan died at the age of 48 on Monday, November 14. Vicky first came to public attention outside the Irish Court on April 25, 2018. That was when she first told her story of being diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer in 2014, three years after a smear test had shown no … [Read more...] about Hibernia: News from Ireland and Irish America