Politics Archive
Ourselves Alone: An Interview with Gerry Adams
The Sinn Féin office is located in a what could hardly be called a luxury…
Ireland’s Groovy Arts Minister
Colin Lacey talks to Michael D. Higgins (recently dubbed by British Vogue as the world’s…
Tim Walz of the Tomhaggard Doyles
How A Solitary Tombstone in Wisconsin Solved the Mystery of His Irish Origins As a…
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Corey Johnson: Lightning in a Bottle
Corey Johnson zoomed into New York like a comet and burst onto the political scene. In just a few short years he became speaker of the city council. He’s smart, […]
Climate Change: A Mum’s Mission
Trócaire’s Lorna Tevnan Gold on saving the future from the present. ℘℘℘ Dr. Lorna Tevnan Gold of the Irish humanitarian organization Trócaire has been working to change environmental policy and […]
Irish Power, U.S. Politics U.S. Rep. Richie Neal Talks to Niall O’Dowd
Richie Neal’s extraordinary journey from a working-class neighborhood in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C., and one of the most powerful jobs in American politics as the chairman of the Ways […]
James Connolly Visitor Centre Opens in Belfast
At a ceremony on Friday, April 19, President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins officially opened Áras Uí Chonghaile, the new James Connolly Visitor Centre, providing a new space for discovery, […]
Wild Irish Women: A Most Sorrowful Mystery
Oh! star of Erin, queen of tears, Black clouds have beset thy birth, And your people die like morning stars, That your light may grace the earth. – “Stars of […]
Window on the Past: Manifest Destiny
Two words from one Irishman who trumpeted the world’s superpower. “Manifest destiny…” These words, placed together, command one’s attention. They sound important, almost biblical. But they didn’t come from an […]