100,000 Protesters March Against Water Charges
Up to 100,000 protesters opposed to the introduction of water charges brought Dublin to a…
Accolades for Ward’s Irish Music Archives
Following the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History, the…
Compadre Plant Matrix
Botanists at Trinity College Dublin have launched a database that documents significant ‘life events’ for nearly…
Follow the Music: Advice from a November Holiday in Ireland
Liz Cunningham-Purchia, her boyfriend Tim Gannon, his sister Clare, and her husband Jano Cabrera, all Washington, D.C. transplants,…
Gemma Hayes:
Crowd-sourcing Her Sound
The Irish musician, singer-songwriter, and composer Gemma Hayes on making music her way. I’ve never done…
Golden Globe Moments and Oscar Nominations
At the Golden Globes in January, Michael Keaton took home the Best Actor in a…
Governor Martin O’Malley
Grants Stays of Execution
Maryland governor Martin O’Malley announced late December that he would commute the execution sentence of the last four death…
Governor Martin O’Malley Grants Stays of Execution
Maryland governor Martin O’Malley announced late December that he would commute the execution sentence of the last four death…
His Irish Table
Growing up, Cathal Armstrong learned that a man’s place was in the kitchen. From an early age,…
Hop Into Dublin
Is there a better way to take in Ireland’s capital than sitting back with coffee…
Hunger: Tragedy, Comedy, Both?
The British broadcaster Channel 4 plans to create a sitcom based on a script by…
IACI Gifts Irish Collection to Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University
The Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University recently received over 4,000 books, historical documents and…
Irish Eye On Hollywood
1As television dramas become more prestigious, Irish acting talent continues to flock to both cable…
Irish Rep Stages Da at New Home
The beloved Irish Repertory Theatre on West 22nd Street in Manhattan has been all but…
Irish Win Smarter Planet Challenge
A project using smart technology to help the plight of the humble honey bee has…
John Duddy: Actor
Middleweight champion John Duddy on hanging up his gloves. In 2011, John Duddy retired from…
John McDermott:
Golf Hall of Famer
John McDermott is finally getting his due over a hundred years after he became the…
Khloe Kardashian Rocks Irish Design
Khloe Kardashian looked fierce wearing a Theia gown at the Golden Globes E! Entertainment after party. The…
New Edition of John Kerr's "Cardigan Bay" (Review)
As a work-a-day archival historian, I am generally allergic to historical fiction. But occasionally I…
NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House Annual Gala
Award-winning writer Peter Quinn and McGraw Hill financial executive Ted Smyth will receive the Seamus Heaney Award…
Photo Album: John Harrington
John Harrington My great-great-grandfather John Harrington’s family had probably been in…
Project Children Draws to a Close
Project Children’s 40th anniversary celebration in Washington D.C. in September brought to a close an…
Reflections in Bere Island
A community of healers gathers for a retreat on the role of spirituality in healing. Bere…
Review of Books
FICTION Nora Webster By Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín’s latest novel Nora Webster finds the gifted…
Rising Sea Levels A Danger for Ireland
In a global warming special on RTÉ’s environment series Eco Eye, experts warned about the…
Roots: The Macs
This issue’s Roots column is slightly different from the traditional format. Instead of looking at…
Shannon Gaels: Field of Dreams
The Shannon Gaels GAA Club in New York is one step closer to building its…
Sláinte! Love Mór
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Edythe Preet gives us the story of Áine,…
Stephen Colbert: One Last
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It was a damp morning in late February 2008 when the phone rang. Harvard scholar…
The Abbey: 110 Years, 110 Moments
In a fitting public tribute to Lady Gregory’s call for the Abbey Theatre “to bring…
The Girls Are Alright
Five years after the tragic loss of their mother and sister, the five Murray daughters and their father,…
The President’s New Year Message
President Michael D. Higgins’s Christmas New Year message, broadcast from Aras on Uchtairan on December…
The Things They Carried
What more fascinatingly intimate look into the lives of soldiers of WWI than a glimpse…
Those We Lost
Jackie Healy-Rae 1931 – 2014 Following a long illness, Former Fianna Fáil TD for South…
U.S. Lifts Ban on Irish Beef
The U.S. agreed last year to lift the ban on Irish beef. The ban had…
What Are You Like? Mary Pat Kelly
Author Mary Pat Kelly weaves historical characters such as Maud Gonne, William Butler Yeats, Countess…
Winter Solstice in Newgrange
There were 30,532 entries for a lottery to experience Winter Solstice 2014 at Newgrange in…
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