History Archive
Deadly Tales from County Tyrone
In 1970, at the age of 22, Bernadette ‘Devlin’ McAliskey was elected to represent the…
Irish Homecoming Festival: A Time That Was
Writer Mary Pat Kelly and photographer Martin Sheerin visited the Ulster-American Folk Park at Camp…
The Mighty Quinn
On reading the correspondence of central early twentieth-century literary figures such as W. B. Yeats,…
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A Mission Remembered
A sentimental nineteenth century novel of virtue rewarded tells the story of an Irish immigrant girl who came to New York in the 1870’s. Subtitled “A Tale Founded on Fact,” […]
(Un)lucky Strike
The Comstock Lode provided over half the silver ever mined in the United States but the Irishmen who discovered it weren’t quite as lucky as one might think. By Jim […]
The Roads to Nowhere
With the implementation of the Single European Market at the end of 1992 that “opened up all European frontiers to free movement and trade” no one in the border counties […]
Northern Ireland, Culture & Identity
Here, then, follow my own observations of the lines by which the community in Northern Ireland is divided….. The first and most important line of division separates national identities. The […]
The History of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York
The St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York is not new to controversy. 1992 and 1993 saw an all-out battle openly waged in the media between those who support the […]
Daniel O’Connell and the Young Irelanders
In the early 1800’s Daniel O’Connell was a young lawyer in Dublin, a member of the tiny Catholic middle class. In those days, although the worst excesses of the Penal […]