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The vital role of the United Irish Counties
Liam Neeson has the full right to embrace Islam if he wants -- His wife's death has led to a search for life's meaning
Liam Neeson's public embrace of Islam has certainly landed him in the middle of a steaming controversy.
The Irish Hollywood star told the London Sun that he was considering adopting the religion because of his experiences in Istanbul while filming where he found the calls to prayer and beauty of its historic mosques very moving.
I know Liam Neeson somewhat as we serve on the American Irish Historical Society board together and we often meet in Irish circles in New York.
Boston keeps its Irish roots - community’s presence felt through out Massachusetts
BOSTON – 38% of the state of Massachusetts is of Irish extraction, and every fourth face or so you see here reflects that ancestry.
Meryl Streep gives amazing performance as Margaret Thatcher -- Iron Lady, warts and all, exposed in new biopic
If Streep doesn't win the Oscar for this performance there is no justice in Hollywood.
She portrays the demented Thatcher who sees her dead husband and carries out imaginary conversations with him.
Will New Jersey Hall of Fame induct Thomas Nast, a racist and anti-Irish Catholic?
The continued controversy over Thomas Nast and his potential membership in the New Jersey Hall of Fame does not reflect well on that state.
The Asbury Park Press newspaper recently attacked Irish Americans in the state who have protested the nomination of Nast, a notorious anti Irish and anti Catholic cartoonist of the later 19th Century.
Sinead O'Connor is not well and the media needs to lay off now--Irish singer is deeply troubled and in need of help
Why do I think that someday soon we will be reading about the further mental problems of Sinead O'Connor?
She's a woman who admitted to trying to commit suicide on her 33rd birthday and to being bi-polar.
Massive emigration points again to Ireland failing to support its people
Dublin: The news that 70,000 departed these shores this year is truly depressing.
Two years ago it was truly ironic to read that Irish students protested near the replica Famine ship the Jeanne Johnston to make a point about the role of enforced emigration in Irish life for the last 175 years.
As another generation gets ready to leave we really have to face facts about the country of Ireland.
New Irish famine data shows the horrific scale of the devastation of the Great Hunger
Recent statistics from the Irish Census about post-Famine Ireland are an extraordinary treasure trove.
Most important, however, the statistics also quote extensively from previous Census material, dating back to 1831.
Since practically every Census from the 19th century was destroyed by the authorities or in the great blaze that happened at the Four Courts in Dubin on the outbreak of the civil war in 1921, these are the only documents that can show an Ireland that was profoundly different to what we have today.
Finding a long lost relative in the 1901 Irish census
The 1901 census has recently been put up online, providing an incredible insight into the Ireland so many of our ancestors left.
Irish American heroes all - Father Joe O’Hare, Sister Jeanne O’Loughlin, William Ford, and Jim Quinn
I had the rare pleasure of spending time with four great Irish Americans this past week. Two were honored by our publication, the Irish Voice, and the other by Irish America magazine.
Father Joe O’Hare, former head of Fordham University, was the Lifetime Achievement awardee at our Irish Education 100 event held at the Irish consul’s residence in New York.
Why is President Obama trying to damage the Irish peace process? Feds working with British agents win access to Boston College IRA tapes
President Obama's administration is damaging the still fragile Irish peace process.
Federal prosecutors acting for the British won a major victory on Friday when Judge William Young ordered Boston College to turn over the transcripts.
Real hope at last for immigration reform for Irish - Senator Schumer bill to highlight case for work visas
There is hope at last that Irish people may be able to emigrate legally to the United States in the coming years.
Tomorrow, Senator Charles Schumer of New York will introduce a bill which will allow up to 10,000 Irish a year to come and work legally in the United States, though not receive green cards.
Newt Gingrich is the real thing as Romney looks more like Elmer Fudd each passing day
Watching the Republican debate last night it really struck me forcefully.
Newt Gingrich is for real.
Top ten stories for 2011 - what a year it was
Here are my top ten stories for 2011. It was quite a year, both good and bad, with many indelible memories.
1. Queen’s visit to Ireland:
Why David Drumm's allegations ring true - Says Irish state knew far more about Anglo collapse than they let on
READ MORE: David Drumm: ‘There is a witch hunt ... I convince myself that this will pass’
Are the Irish in denial over what happened during their banking and economic crisis?
Tragic suicide of head of Irish Democrats Abroad ---- Recalling Kate Fitzgerald, a woman who shone so brightly
Kate Fitzgerald was a bright bubbly girl, just 25, a daughter of friends of mine who moved back to Ireland from California.
She was head of Irish Democrats Abroad and was doing a spectacular job with an organization that had had gone from strength to strength.
A good news story, an Irish newspaper that would not die --The Irish Post rises again from the ashes in London
London: A few months back the Irish Post, the voice of the Irish in Britain, seemed doomed.
The Irish-based Examiner group had decided to pull the plug claiming substantial losses and it looked like the end for the flagship of the Irish community throughout Britain.
The widespread view was that the Examiner Group, beset by losses in its Irish publications. had just decided that the British paper was not worth the candle.
Time has come for daytime flights from US to Ireland - Would boost tourist numbers at a critical time
London: It is time for a daytime flight from the US to Ireland.
I am more convinced than ever after this trip to London.
I boarded a British Airways plane at 8.30 in New York on Wednesday morning and arrived here in London at 8 p.m local time.
Owen Patterson- a different kind of Northern Ireland secretary
Owen Paterson recently took part in a 1,000-mile horse race across Mongolia.
It is hardly the resume item you would expect to see on a Northern Ireland secretary’s bio, but Paterson, 55, is hardly the conventional type of politician.
Why Micheal D.Higgins will stand apart as Irish president ---A perfect president for the important 1916 centenary
The ghosts of the men and women of 1916 will sleep easier this Halloween weekend knowing that Michael D. Higgins is the president who will preside over the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016.
The newly elected president of Ireland is a poet like Padraig Pearse and Joseph Plunkett two of the signatories of the famous proclamation, the founding document of the Irish state.
He is a leading Labor figure like a third, James Connolly and the fact that he attained power with a powerful assist from Sinn Fein would no doubt be of great interest to that parties founders.
20,000 Notre Dame fans set for Dublin in September 2012 ---Incredible reaction from Fighting Irish fans to Navy game in Ireland
South Bend: Notre Dame are expecting an incredible 20,000 Fighting Irish fans to come to Dublin in September next year Notre Dame officials say.
It will be the largest ever 'invasion' by US sports fans of Ireland.
The last time Notre Dame played in Ireland in 1995 only 4,000 or so fans traveled.
Tom Kennedy, a trailblazer and great Irish gentleman, passes
Kennedy was Public Relations & Advertising Manager
Wacky Irish presidential race gets even stranger -- murder, pedophiles,terrorists-- read all about it
The wacky and weird Irish presidential race just got a whole Twilight Zone twist when the husband of Dana, alias Rosemary Scallon, a former gospel singer once based in America, claimed she had been the target of an assassination attempt.
Driving back to Dublin from the West of Ireland on Tuesday, a tire on the car blew out, and the couple narrowly escaped injury.
It was subsequently discovered the tire had fifteen knife puncture wounds and police were investigating and treating it as a crime.
Irish presidential race is getting dirtier by the day ---latest media sex allegations mark a new low
If you think American politics is dirty consider some of what happened in Ireland's presidential race this weekend.
The Irish Mail ran a story splashed across its front page reporting that a forced sexual encounter had been reported involving one of the main candidates.
The alleged incident was reported to a police station last week.
Winston Churchill had plans to invade Ireland in Second World War --- Unionist leader believed De Valera was pro Hitler
It took me me a while to get around to a remarkable book ‘Britain, Ireland and the Second World War’ written by the Scottish historian Ian S. Wood and published by Edinburgh University Press.
The book is extraordinary in its detail of how the poisoned relationship between the two countries almost led to a second British invasion during the Second World War.
Fine Gael and media attacks hand Martin McGuinness a major victory
The rise in the Martin McGuinness vote and the fall in Gay Mitchell's vote in the Irish presidential election speaks volumes.
Mitchell, the Fine Gael candidate has been the attack dog, backed by major elements of the Dublin media in going after McGuinness from Sinn Fein.
The level of vitriol has included possible impeachment if he is elected president to being arrested for his IRA past.
Steve Jobs was a great American genius
Back in 1984 in San Francisco I bought my first Macintosh.
It changed my life.
Irish govt attacks on McGuinness will rebound with Clintons, leading Americans-----Short sighted assault to cost support in America
Fine Gael attacks on Sinn Fein presidential candidate Martin McGuinness will reflect badly on them in America.
They appear to be desperate attempts to try and build law and order vote support for their candidate Gay Mitchell who is foundering in the opinion polls.
It may well end up not helping Mitchell and damaging Irish government and Irish American relationships.
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