“If You Can’t Stand Up – Stand Out”
It is a Manhattan Irish bar late at night. Chris O’Donoghue of WWOR Channel 9…
Back to the Future
In the anteroom to the office of the Mayor of Chicago there is an impressive…
Blazes Boylan
The Irishman behind Saddam’s Bunker A construction engineer from County Antrim has approached the British…
Charleston’s Hibernian Hall
Charleston, South Carolina: At first I saw what I anticipated-streets of beautiful eighteenth-and nineteenth-century homes…
First Word: The Top 100!
Dear Reader, It’s Top 100 time again and don’t for a minute think that comedian…
Hall of Fame | America’s Colleen
It’s not unusual to find Irish Americans who can recite, verbatim, scenes from The Quiet…
Hall of Fame | The Lion in Winter
The gentle rolling hills that surround his ranch in Goshen, New York, about 60 miles…
Hibernia | Irish in the Civil War
The March-April issue of Civil War magazine is devoted to examining the role of the…
Hibernia | Who Wrote “Danny Boy”?
The words to perhaps the most famous of all Irish songs, “Danny Boy,” were actually…
Mary Robinson: President for All the People
On December 3, 1990 Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman ever to be…
Roots: The Kavanaghs
Unlike most of the families covered in this column, the origin of the Kavanaghs or…
The Other Side | The Hidden Treasures of the Burren
On the Other Side of the Galway Bay from where I am sitting now, on…
Top of the Irish: Michael J. Roarty
Lapsing into a hushed brogue, Michael John Roarty told of the telephone call he received…
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Knocknarae: A Hitchhiker’s Guide
I had only one day for Knocknarae, and it was the worst day. In Sligo…