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  1. New York City's top 10 Irish historical sites
    November 06, 09

    The Irish have made their mark on Manhattan for centuries, building the skyscrapers, policing the streets and eventually running city hall. That’s why when you visit the Big Apple you won’t be short of fascinating historical sites of enduring importance to the Irish.

  2. Immigration Q&A: Part two: Naturalization questions and answers
    August 19, 09

    The second part of our annual summer feature on the questions U.S. naturalization candidates can be asked during a citizenship interview, as provided by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. Here are the last 50, with acceptable answers. For more information on naturalization, visit www.uscis.gov.

  3. Starstruck Clare residents scramble to find ties to Muhammed Ali
    August 12, 09

    An Irish heritage center in County Clare is being flooded with phone calls from Ennis residents looking to establish ancestral ties with American boxing great Muhammed Ali.

  4. Liam Neeson set to star in new thriller
    August 06, 09

    Irish acting favorite Liam Neeson has signed on to star in another thriller movie entitled “Unknown White Male.”

  5. An Ghorta Mor - The Great Hunger
    July 30, 09

    The Irish government designated May 17, 2009 as the first National Famine Memorial Day. On that day, Irish people throughout the world remembered and honored the victims of Ireland’s Great Hunger

  6. Neeson ready to transform into Abraham Lincoln
    July 02, 09

    Filming is ready to begin on Steven Spielberg’s next movie, “Lincoln,” starring Ballymena-born actor Liam Neeson. In a role that’s set to be the Irish actor’s greatest to date, Neeson will play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the biopic opposite Sally Field, who will portray his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.

  7. Theater review: 'The Rivalry' at N.Y.'s Irish Rep
    June 11, 09

    In “The Rivalry,” a 1959 play by Norman Corwin now playing at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, a riveting old argument is at the center of the work, and the debate is as potent today as it ever was -- the argument over human liberty and the survival of the United States itself.

  8. Hidden Irish American history uncovered at Notre Dame
    May 26, 09

    Notre Dame holds some Irish surprises. When I was preparing a lecture on Eamon De Valera’s visit to the university during his 1919 American tour, I discovered that on the stop he viewed the Civil War sword of Thomas Francis Meagher. Known as a leader of the failed Young Irelander rising of 1848, Meagher championed a republican movement that sought to free Ireland by any means necessary. Not only does Notre Dame hold Meagher's sword but it also holds a battle flag of the famed Irish Brigade

  9. Naturalization Questions - Part 2
    March 10, 09

    FOLLOWING is the second part of our annual summer feature on the questions U.S. naturalization candidates can be asked during a citizenship interview, as provided by the U.

  10. Paradise Alley
    March 10, 09

    Whoever knew that the Civil War Draft Riots would become hip! In 2002, Martin Scorsese unveiled his long-awaited film "The Gangs of New York." Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Liam Neeson, Daniel Day-Lewis and Cameron Diaz play lowlifes in Civil War-era New York, who are eventually swept up into the devastating riots of July 1863, which left over 100 people dead. Before that, though, there was novelist Kevin Baker's hefty novel "Paradise Alley.

  11. Tribeca Debut for Irish Films
    March 10, 09

    The Tribeca Film Festival in downtown Manhattan goes from strength to strength each year, and 2008 is no exception. A stellar line-up of new Irish films will also be offered to entertain film buffs. CAHIR O'DOHERTY reports.

  12. Ireland Celebrates President Obama
    March 09, 09

    Celebrations were well underway in Ollie's bar in Moneygall, Co. Offaly Tuesday evening as locals and visitors to the town gathered together to celebrate President Barack Obama's inauguration. Live musicians and Irish set dancers, called the Obama Set Dancers, donned in American set dancing costumes, entertained punters as glasses were raised in a toast to the new president of the U.

  13. Gilligans Gourmet
    March 09, 09

    There are a couple of myths told each year at my house on Thanksgiving. One is that the Chef won't get bladdered and kick everyone out of the kitchen. The other is that there's a natural chemical in turkey called tryptophan that makes you sleepy after the meal.

  14. Gilligans Gourmet
    March 09, 09

    History of Presidents Day The original version of the holiday was in commemoration of George Washington's birthday in 1796 (the last full year of his presidency). Washington, according to the calendar that has been used since at least the mid-18th century, was born on Feb. 22, 1732.

  15. Gilligans Gourmet
    March 09, 09

    A LITTLE VALENTINE TRIVIA About three percent of pet owners give Valentine's Day gifts to their pets. One-third of all Valentine's Day cards are accompanied by gifts. Hallmark has more than 1,330 different cards specifically for Valentine's Day.

  16. Gilligans Gourmet
    March 09, 09

    "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last" Each year on the third Monday of January, schools, federal offices, post office and banks across America close as we celebrate the newest American national holiday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  17. Gilligans Gourmet
    March 09, 09

    THANKSGIVING HISTORY Though it was not called Thanksgiving at the time, what we recognize as the first Thanksgiving feast was celebrated in 1621 by the pilgrims of the Plymouth colony along with about 90 Wampanoag Indians. The Pilgrims had suffered through a devastating winter in which nearly half their number died. Without the help of the Indians, all would have perished.

  18. Bush Not the Worst
    March 09, 09

    A taste of how some influential Irish writers feel about America was also evident in that same issue of The Irish Times. The issue under discussion was whether George W. Bush is the worst president ever.

  19. Intelligencer
    March 09, 09

    Wheeler to Be Obama Link

    THE Obama campaign has appointed Carol Wheeler as its liaison to the Irish American community.

    The Washington, D.C.

  20. A House in Black and White - and Green!
    March 09, 09

    On the day he assumes the highest office in the land, Barack Hussein Obama, the descendant of Ohio and Indiana immigrants who came from the borders of Counties Offaly and Tipperary, will join an exclusive club of twenty Presidents who claim Irish ancestry. President Obama's single Irish great-great-great-grandparent puts him at thirteenth position in an informal ranking, alongside James Polk and just ahead of Richard Nixon, whose Quaker immigrant ancestors also came from Ireland to Ohio and Indiana. But the new president's foreign-born father admits him to a smaller and more distinguished group of four that up to now has been exclusively Irish (the parents of Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, and the father of Chester Arthur were all born on the island of Ireland).

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