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Canada Recognizes Irish Famine Memorial
The Irish in Canada have won a major victory over the Canadian Government on how…
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
Found her Voice in Ireland
Found her Voice in Ireland
In Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield: The Abolitionist “Black Swan”, Professor Christine Kinealy (Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute,…
Remembering Alice James
When William of Albany, as he came to be known, left County Cavan in 1789…
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The Clunes’ American Adventure
An Irish American family go back to 1883 to discover what’s most important in the present. What could be more parental than to wish to show your children how good […]
Caught in the Crossfire
We’re circling Abercorn Street in Derry and Richard Moore, my sunglassed passenger, is pointing out focal points of his native city. He acts as navigator, advising me to turn left […]
Just Judy
By the time Judy Garland made her first and only concert appearance in Dublin in July 1951, she had been an international star for more than a decade. She had […]
The Mammoth of Ventry
How many men can say they live with four women and the only woolly mammoth in Ireland? Harris Moore can, because his home in Ventry on the western Dingle Peninsula […]
To Hell or Barbados
The ethnic cleansing of Ireland: Emmett O’Connell reviews Sean O’Callaghan’s book on the Irish whom Cromwell sent into slavery. “These Irish, anciently called Anthropophagi (maneaters), have a tradition among them, […]
Hibernia: O’Neill Was a Key Figure on North
New papers show influence with Reagan. ℘℘℘ Newly released files from the Reagan White House papers show that the Irish-American president was persuaded by a personal appeal by then House […]