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New York Yankees Irish Heritage 2025
Celebrate Irish Heritage at Yankee Stadium in July when the Yankees take on the Seattle…
The Heroes of ’47
The 50th anniversary of the All-Ireland Football Final, played in New York. It’s been fifty…
“The Good Sport”
In this excerpt from his memoir The Good Sport, Kevin White takes us on his…
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Waverider: The Irish Roots of Surfing
Waveriders, the acclaimed documentary directed by Dublin native Joel Conroy and coming out on DVD March 16, is based around an unusual premise: modern-day surfing’s Irish-American roots. The award-winning film […]
The Irish in Early Baseball
More than two dozen sons of Irish immigrants, who played in the 1880-1920 period, are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Many other great Irish players have […]
Sea Fever: An Irish Surfing Odyssey
Ireland, with 3,000 miles of open Atlantic to the West, offers some of the best surf conditions in the world. Sea Fever, a documentary, covers the history of Irish surfing […]
GAA Marks Its 125th Birthday
The Gaelic Athletic Association staged a spectacular fireworks dis- play at Croke Park in Dublin to commemorate its 125th anniversary since being founded in 1884 in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Association […]
Ulster Scots at Stone Mountain Highland Games
For 38 years, Stone Mountain Park, northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, fills with the sounds of bagpipes, fiddles and harps during the third weekend in October for the Stone Mountain Highland […]
Gaelic Games’ New Future in San Francisco
Hard times are falling on communities across the country, and even in the affluent San Francisco area, belts are tightening and the economy is in decline. But on a recent […]