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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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Out of Ireland: The Story Of Irish Emigration To America
Out of Ireland, a documentary film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner, had its first public showing at the New York Lincoln Center Irish Film Festival in June, and will […]
Revisionists And The Writing Of Irish History
The great famine, the legacy of Wolfe Tone and the nature of the 1798 rebellion, Patrick Pearse’s psychological stability, and whether the gallant fight for freedom provides a thematic unity […]
The Irish in New Orleans
They built the roads and the canals, and died in their thousands from yellow fever. They competed with slaves to load cotton on the ships bound for Liverpool. Ships that […]
What Price Peace?
As British Prime Minister John Major and Taoiseach Albert Reynolds announced their historic “Joint Declaration for Peace” in Northern Ireland on December 15, the vital question was whether the new […]