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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An American Wake
For the last 150 years poor mother Ireland has been casting out her young to the four corners of the world. The country, it could be said, is no more […]
The Irish Experience in Australia
Thomas Keneally is widely-recognized for a wide body of work of a historical and political nature, including The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, which explores differences between the white and Aboriginal […]
1992 Yeats International Theatre Festival
More than half a century after his death, William Butler Yeats is still Ireland’s foremost avant-garde playwright. We return to his theatre work, in all it diversity and contradictions, not […]
75th Anniversary of The Irish Uprising 1916
Easter 1916 and the Annals of Irish History Few events in Irish history have been as momentous as the 1916 Easter Rising. What started out as a minor and unpopular […]
A Little Irish Romance | Marriage in the Good Old Days
A woman at marriage passed into her husband’s fine and was accorded half his worth in honor-price, but she also had status in her own right. Some historians believe that […]
Hibernia | Irish in the Civil War
The March-April issue of Civil War magazine is devoted to examining the role of the Irish in the War Between the States. This fact comes on the heels of the […]