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View from the Eastern Front of the War on Ukraine
Kharkiv: Russia’s war on Ukraine looks different up close. It’s a mix of extreme danger…
Larry O’Brien: A Perennial NBA Champion
When someone mentions the NBA Finals, you might think of Jordan or Kobe slashing their…
America’s Birth Certificate’s Irish Connection
John Dunlap: The Irish-born Printer of the Declaration of Independence At the age of ten John…
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Jim Dwyer Storyteller
By Irish America staff A trio of New York journalists Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill and Jim Dwyer, profoundly changed the way newspaper columns are written. Where once columns were either […]
Farewell to a LegendJim Dwyer, a beloved figure and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter,columnist, and author, passed away at the age of 63 on October 8, 2020
By Niall O’Dowd It was fitting that in his last column for The New York Times on May 26th, Jim Dwyer wrote about the quiet heroism of his great grandmother in […]
IMAGINE John Lennon at 85
Imagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of man … Thursday, October 9, 2025 marked what would have been the 85th birthday of rock […]
To Live For Ireland
Mary Pat Kelly writes about her friendship with politician and peacemaker, John Hume “Mr. Hume says Northern Ireland is too complicated to reduce to a Yes/No proposition,” Ted Smyth said […]
The Pull Of The Stars
By Tom Deignan Best-Selling Dublin-born author Emma Donoghue has a brilliant and timely new novel out. Set in an Irish maternity ward during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, The […]
Bobby Kennedy Has Been Turned into an Impossibly Perfect Hero
He deserves a better judgment As Bobby Kennedy lay dying on a hotel kitchen floor, we’re told his last words were of concern for those around him who had also […]