“Over There”
Americans Stationed in N. Ireland During WWII Remember that last scene in Yankee Doodle Dandy?…
Beckett Festival: First of Its Kind
The Beckett Festival at the Gate Theatre during Dublin’s Theatre Festival was the first ever…
Black ’47: The Clancy Brothers of the 90’s?
As Larry Kirwan, the wiry lead guitarist and singer drags out this melodramatic emigration song,…
Blazes Boylan
Just seven days into the New Year, the Irish community in New York and in…
Doherty’s Supreme Disappointment
At the end of it all, it was from his fellow inmates at the Lewisburg,…
First Word: Another Year, Another Scandal
DUBLIN: Now comes Sean Doherty, former Minister for Justice in the Irish government, the point…
Hibernia
That’s the question currently inflaming the intelligentsia of Putnam County, a rocky chunk of exurbia…
JFK The Movie
“It is distressing, and saddening,” said Senator Edward Kennedy about the movie JFK. “Obviously it’s…
Roots: The O’Neills
There are several different septs of the O’Neills in Counties Clare (where the name is…
The Green, Green Greens of Home
There is a lovely story told about a day in the hospitable south of Ireland…
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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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The Back Story to Mel Tormé’s Classic Christmas Song
This story is about Rita and Mel and a Christmas song — no, make that…