Art Review: An Alternative Reality
“Patrick Graham is a powerful and poetic artist. This man is real. He’s the artist…
Blazes Boylan
Irish Man in Space At 8:24 a.m. on Wednesday, June 5, Bryan Daniel O’Connor, became…
Book Review | Damage
One of the most auspicious debuts in published fiction this year is Josephine Hart’s brisk…
Edna O’Brien: A Fanatic Heart
I thought that ours indeed was a land of shame, a land of murder, a…
First Word: Triple Spirals at Least
Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief. The ancient Irish gave tribute to the unique…
Hibernia | The Irish Contribution to America’s Independence
The Declaration of Independence was written in the hand of Irish-born Charles Thomson. First read…
Ireland House
Sometimes it all just works. Or as Shannery O’Connor wrote, quoting Teilhard de Chardin, “Everything…
Masks of Transformation
Report on the Second Annual W.B. Yeats International Theatre Festival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin,…
Roots: O’Mahoney, McMahon and Vaughan
The families of McMahon and O’Mahoney are related only by the common derivation of their…
Sacred Mysteries | The Celtic Way of Sexuality and Love
“Irishmen and Irishwomen regard set instinctively as they regard mud” — Arnold Usher Arnold Usher’s…
Soccer – A No Score in the U.S.A.
Why don’t Americans like soccer? Well, not exactly all Americans – just most of them….
The Other Side | Pub Crawling in the West
I am in the Mayo town of Ballaghaderreen on a June day, l am here…
Top of the Best Sellers List
Mary Higgins Clark Publishing’s favorite adjective is “best selling.” But two authors on June’s New…
Cover Story
News
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Hibernia
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Those We Lost
A tribute to those who have
passed on…..
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Slainte!
Tracing the history of traditional Irish food, drink, and celebration…..
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Photo Album
Photos and stories of our reader’s Irish ancestors….
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A Child’s Christmas in Brooklyn
In the Brooklyn world of my childhood, Ireland seemed especially close at Christmas. While we…