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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Angel of the Camps
In 1867, the two young Cashman sisters sailed from Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, to America and took the newly completed transcontinental railroad to San Francisco. With the shortage of women […]
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne: The Stonewall Jackson of the West
History has largely forgotten Patrick Ronayne Cleburne. Perhaps this is not surprising. Like many Irishmen throughout history, he fought on the losing side of a foreign war and, as we […]
Nellie Bly: “The Best Reporter in America”
Nellie Bly’s biographer, Brooke Kroeger, captured the essence of his admirable subject when he wrote: “In the 1880s, she pioneered the development of ‘detective’ or ‘stunt’ journalism, the acknowledged forerunner […]
Dorothea Lange’s Ireland
When photographer Dorothea Lange, best known for her haunting series of images from the Depression era, chose Ireland as her subject in the 1950s, she was not very happy with […]
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, talks to Patricia Harty. Thomas Cahill was born one of six children to a middle-class Irish family in the Bronx. He […]
The Irish and Abolition
Observations of African-American and Irish Abolitionists During his career, O’Connell was elected Mayor of Dublin and a member of the British Parliament. However, he was refused his seat in the […]