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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300 Years of Scots-Irish Immigration to U.S.
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the first great wave of Scots-Irish migration to the United States, and over the next 12 months, several towns in Northern Ireland and […]
An Irish Artist’s American Odyssey
William James Hinchey traveled throughout America’s Southwest frontier and Missouri capturing images of life, the ravages of war, and beyond. Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian (1985) depicts the rough, perilous […]
The Irish Airman’s Grave: From Padua to Kiltartan
The story of W.B. Yeats’s tower, Lady Gregory’s autograph tree, and the grave of Irish airman Robert Gregory, whose death inspired some of Yeats’s most well-known poems. January 23, 2018, […]
Photo Album: Dad and J.F.K.
My father Cyril DeFever grew up on a dairy farm near Detroit, Michigan. His parents had immigrated to the U.S. from Belgium. My mother, Marie Clancy, the daughter of an insurance man, […]
Weekly Comment: How the Irish Saved the Pilgrims and Started Thanksgiving
In 1621, the pilgrims, just arrived in the New World, had no idea how wild their new frontier could be. Winter arrived and with it came starvation, death, and the […]
Micheline’s March
This September, Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington, the granddaughter of Irish patriot Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (who was executed without trial by a British firing squad during the Easter Rising) and his wife Hanna, arrived […]