All For the Love of Ewe
Break out your wool shears, the Golden Shears World Sheep Shearing championship kicked off on…
Bishop’s Mansion is Gone With the Wind
In recent news, Atlanta’s Archbishop Wilton Gregory surprised the city’s Catholic community when it was…
California Schools to Study Irish Famine
A new initiative set forth by Cork native and California resident John F. O’Riordan hopes…
Celtic Argentina
Director of Celtic Argentina Dominique Dure. Despite Argentina’s historical ties to…
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Kick-Off
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, the largest group involved in the preservation and promotion of Irish traditional…
Concern’s Annual Spring Run Raises $200K
The 16th Annual Concern Worldwide Spring Run was held in New York’s Central Park on…
Does Paul Ryan Have Irish Amnesia?
On the eve of St. Patrick’s Day last March, Timothy Egan’s column “Paul Ryan’s Irish…
Ernie O’Malley Symposium
On 25 and 26 April 2014 Glucksman Ireland House NYU hosted the spectacularly successful Ernie…
Excavation of Duffy’s Cut Continues
A new chapter of the harsh and often brutal experience of Irish immigrants in America…
Expansion Project for Cliffs of Moher
Visitors to the Cliffs of Moher this summer will see a much-needed host of upgrades…
Gerry Adams Arrested
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was arrested in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, April 30, and…
How Guinness Saved Ireland
At nearly one billion liters of Guinness sold per year, it has become one of…
Irish Eye on Hollywood
Angelina Jolie is looking to the Irish to help tell an amazing story about an…
Irish Folk Bonanza
If ever you’ve been mid-St. Patrick’s Day party hunting through your collection for the perfect…
Lady Sligo Exhibit Opens at Quinnipiac University
Ambassador Anne Anderson visited Quinnipiac University on April 29th for the grand opening of the…
Lovely Lola: The Countess Who Became the Vamp of the Mining Camps
There was a time in the mid-19th century when all Europe raved about the Spanish…
New CEO for JFK Trust
The board of the John F. Kennedy Trust, New Ross, recently announced the election of…
On The Set with
Norah O’Donnell
Norah O’Donnell is the co-host of CBS This Morning, guest host on Face the Nation,…
One Quarter of Ireland Affected by Another’s Drinking
New research has found that more than a quarter of the population is affected by…
Online Funerals for the Diaspora
A new business venture by County Clare entrepreneur Alan Foudy (pictured below) plans to live-stream…
Oscar & Doc: A trip to Leadville, Colorado
You hoist one of Colorado’s fine craft beers at the long, dark bar of the…
Photo Album: Bits and Pieces
In the 1960s my mother inherited a ring that had been passed down through two…
President Higgins’s First State Visit to the Queen
In April President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina made their first official state…
President Higgins's First State Visit to the Queen
In April President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina made their first official state…
Remains of Famine Immigrants Reinterred on Staten Island
The remains of 83 Irish Famine immigrants were reinterred on Staten Island in late April…
Review of Books
The Dream of the Celt By Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Edith…
Roots: The Ulster Clans O’Neill and O’Donnell
Outside the city limits of ancient Rome at the top of the Janiculum hill is…
Salsa Verde: The Irish in Argentina
On the bicentennial of Combate de Montevideo, May, 1814, which won the River Plate and…
Sláinte: Forty Shades of Green
Back in the nineties a friend’s gorgeous garden made me 40 envious shades of green….
TCM Honors Maureen O’Hara
At the 2014 TCM festival in Hollywood this past April, Maureen O’Hara was on hand…
Tech Companies Expanding in Ireland
A new report on the technology sector in Ireland suggests that the industry is poised for…
The First Word: A Visit to Irish America
I’ve come to think of Irish America as an actual place unto itself, sort of…
The Irish and World War I
One hundred years ago this summer, the story goes, a Daily Mail war correspondent named…
The Kelly Cares Dinner
The Kelly Cares Foundation’s annual Irish Eyes Gala, took place at the Sheraton Times Square…
The Last Word: The Father of Irish Studies
Tim Pat Coogan recalls Eoin McKiernan, who for many years wrote the “Last Word” column…
The Southern Cross
Dr. Guillermo MacLoughlin An interview with the editor-in-chief, Dr. Guillermo MacLoughlin….
The Truth of the Battle of Clontarf
A grudge rebellion or the medieval equivalent of the 1916 Rising? The world’s leading authorities…
The Very Modern Ed O’Neill
It’s hard to put a finger on why the sitcom ‘Modern Family’ is so successful….
The Vikings of Waterford
The popular perception of Vikings is tinged with terror. The Irish tend to think of…
Those We Lost
George Donaldson 1968 – 2014 George Donaldson, the eldest member of Celtic Thunder, died in…
What Are You Like?
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