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Thomas Cahill is a bestselling author and scholar whose landmark book, How the Irish Saved…
Boston’s Man of the People: Marty Walsh
There was world renowned musician Yo-Yo Ma on center stage, playing an audacious solo of…
Celebrating with Concern
CEO of Aer Lingus Christoph Mueller was honored by the international humanitarian organization Concern Worldwide…
Glucksman Ireland House NYU at Twenty
2013 was an extraordinarily busy year at 1 Washington Mews. Starting last February, a plethora…
Grandma Walsh’s Wake
Grandma Walsh’s Wake After the viewing in the funeral home— all the young cousins marauding…
Irish Eye on Hollywood
Maybe they should call it the Father and Son Dance Film Festival! After all, it…
Irish Scientists Discover Genetic Basis for Memory Formation
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have shown for the first time that two genes involved…
Jimmy Fallon Family Tree
Megan Smolenyak, the roots detective, takes a look at Jimmy Fallon’s Irish side. Not yet…
Photo Album: Bridget’s Shawl
Bridget O’Donnell of Cork, Ireland, my great-grandmother, was sent out to Boston by her father…
Portals to the Past
I love to drive around Ireland, especially if I have the luxury of time. I…
Review of Books
Exchange Place by Ciaran Carson Ciaran Carson is a writer preoccupied with memory and…
Roots: The O’Dowd Clan
In 982 the King of Connaught, Aedh Ua Dubhda (or Hugh O’Dowd), “died an untroubled…
Sláinte: Soup is ON!
It rained yesterday. That might not be a big thing in Ireland or New York…
Strong Boy
On February 7, 1882, John L. Sullivan was on his way to becoming “America’s first…
The Fifth Province
There is a well-known Irish saying: ar scáth a chéile a mhaireas na daoine that…
The First Word: We Are All Immigrants
And so it begins. A new year, and already a happy one with the election of an…
The Quiet Man is A National Treasure
There was much rejoicing among Golden-Age film lovers on December 18, 2013, when they learned…
Those We Lost
Peter O’Toole (1932-2013) Peter O’Toole, the actor who rose to international fame nearly overnight as…
Toy Trains
An excerpt from the memoir “Tipperary to Tibet,” a collection of Irish stories by Joseph…
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