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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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Éamon de Valera: Man of Mystery
Éamon de Valera, the dominant political figure of Ireland’s 20th century, was an enigmatic figure to the end of his life. Éamon de Valera was sentenced to death for his […]
The Last Rebel of the 1916 Rising
The last remaining person in the U.S. to have fought in the 1916 Rising in Ireland died in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 99 on January 21, 1996. Elizabeth […]
Smoky The Lucky War Dog
The famous war dog who served in World War II, and Bill Wynne, the U.S. Army Air Force G.I. who adopted her. The first time Cpl. William Wynne saw Smoky, […]
“Kathy White House”
Were she alive today, the odds are that Kathy Buckley would be as well-known as celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson. Sharon Ní Chonchúir profiles the Irish woman who […]
Mathew Brady’s Irish Mystery
In August, a sign in Johnsburg, New York that claimed to mark the birthplace of acclaimed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady went missing. But in addition to sparking a search […]
Forgotten Famine-era Graves Discovered in Massachusetts
An estimated 600-900 neglected and forgotten Famine-era graves were discovered in Massachusetts in September when Rhode Islander Annie McMullen was attempting to trace her husband’s Irish ancestry in New England. McMullen’s journey […]