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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Window on the Past: Manifest Destiny
Two words from one Irishman who trumpeted the world’s superpower. “Manifest destiny…” These words, placed together, command one’s attention. They sound important, almost biblical. But they didn’t come from an […]
Wild Irish Women: Louise Mohan Bryant
It took a movie, 1981’s Reds, to both lift Louise Bryant from obscurity and reduce her to the sniveling acolyte of American communist John Reed, Annie Hall in a babushka. […]
Window on the Past: A Savior of History
John Gilmary Shea preserved much of the existing knowledge of the beginnings of American Catholicism. Considering the Irish-American influence on U.S. Catholicism, it makes sense that someone of Irish descent […]
Wild Irish Women: Dr. James Barry
The famous British Army surgeon was actually an Irish woman. ℘℘℘ Dr. James Barry was born in County Cork as Margaret Anne Bulkley, the daughter of Jeremiah and Mary-Ann (neé […]
The Irish Nightingale of the Civil War
“The Irish-American Florence Nightingale” of the Civil War – Sister Mary Anthony. The name of this Civil War medical pioneer has unjustly slipped between history’s proverbial cracks. Still, her legacy […]
Rome, Italy: Retracing the Footsteps of Hugh O’Neill one of the Last Gaelic Kings
Why it’s time to reclaim the last days and figureheads of the old Gaelic world. Stories matter, so here’s a good one. Four hundred and ten years ago this November […]