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The Tribeca Film Festival opened in late April, and Cillian Murphy’s latest effort was among…

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Keough, Keogh, Kehoe, O’Hoey, Hoy, Haughy, Haugh and MacKeogh are all derivatives of the Irish…

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With an estimated 450,000 Irish and counting living in Arizona, it’s suitable that the Irish…

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Liam Moriarty explores the Stone Age archaeological wonder in County Mayo. When one thinks of…

Abdon M. Pallasch ponders the truth of a provocative line from the movie The Departed….

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Fresh from securing a conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Scooter Libby,…

Memory is the bond that ties us to home, even when we are far away….