Ireland's foremost writer of fiction, William Trevor, talks about his latest work, ‘Love and Summer.'

The name Fahy is O'Fathaigh in Gaelic, and probably originates from the word fothadh which means base or foundation. Another rarer English version of the name is Vahey and occasionally Fay, which has a different root except for occasional instances in Galway.

Shannon Airport in Ireland’s West became the first airport outside Canada, Bermuda and the

On November 2, 1759, a veritable riot broke out along several blocks of lower Manhattan. The target of the torch-bearing crowds was a man deemed to be a “rogue” and informer named George Spencer. Spencer survived the crowds’ wrath, though he was banged up with bruises and

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

Ireland is set to promote its own "Alcatraz" in a new tourism blitz. And tourism chiefs are hoping that Spike Island in County Cork will become as big a tourist attraction as the former jail in San Francisco

During this tough economic time, Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is doing exceptionally well. Now, Ireland’s biggest betting Web site is capitalizing even more on the recession by inviting users to place bets on the economy.

Beneath his charming exterior, Ireland's so-called 'most-romantic man' has a few skeltons in his closet. And God only knows what they're doing!

For the flower industry, “Mother’s Day is the mother of them all,” says Jim McCann, CEO and founder of 1-800-Flowers. It's bigger than Valentine's Day OR Christmas and the company will alone sell well over 1 million Mother’s Day orders this year. “I deliver each of them personally,” joked Irish-American McCann. “I get pretty tired.”

The number of Catholics in the Police Service of Northern Ireland is at an all-time high

 An Irish stockbrokers broke the law when it traded shares of an Irish bank in 2001, the Irish Financial Regulator has said. The regulator added that Dublin-based

I got dumped three weeks ago and had to leave my perfectly sunny and warm life of paradise in Mexico, and go back home to the East Coast in January. Walking out of Newark Airport was like setting foot into nuclear winter after vacationing in the sun, with my flip flops at the bottom of my backpack and the only sweater I owned on my back. I spent the next week trying to re-adjust to walking in shoes on concrete in actual snow or rain, falling down the stairs of Penn Station and cursing the Father Winter I was sure I'd never have to see again.

"I HAVE had a green card for four years. I have spent time on and off between here and Ireland, but now I'm back in New York for good, and plan on getting my citizenship at the earliest opportunity. I have a question about my driver's license.

The hopes of summer gathered at Rory Dolan's in Yonkers last Sunday courtesy of the Woodlawn School of Irish Music. It was their early foray into fundraising for their young students who aspire to attend Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann (www.fleadh 2009.

I MUST admit to opening the packaging of Daniel O'Donnell's newest CD, Until the Next Time, with great trepidation.

The last time I checked in with O'Donnell, I got completely addicted to his salt water taffy renditions of pop confections from the 1950s. Teenage Dreams found him posing as a spit-curled rocker Ken doll, posing through the songbooks of former teen idols like Neil Sedaka, the Beatles and the Everly Brothers.

MOTHER Nature has been very cruel to the Gulf and Caribbean areas this hurricane season, and so very devastating in the short and long term for the people who live there.

Complaining about the damp weather that beset the ICONS Festival in Canton, Massachusetts this past weekend would pale in comparison, even though the itinerant event that has moved from June to August to September this year in an attempt to seek the perfect conditions that would allow the weekend event to properly exploit its many assets.

No doubt, the heavy rain on Friday night and its softer showers on Sunday sandwiched Saturday's day of comfortable reprieve dampened the attendance - and the grounds - for the ambitious festival and the bottom line.

"In the lives of cities, boldness and vision rarely follow catastrophe," wrote architectural critic Paul Goldberger. The city of Belfast in Northern Ireland may be the exception that proves the rule. After a generation of Troubles, the citizens of the great port city have grown accustomed to peace and economic growth.

DUBLIN - On Good Friday I went to a mosque. There were over 1,000 attendees at Friday prayers at the mosque located in Clonskeagh, a Dublin suburb next to University College Dublin.

They came from all over the Arab world, but some were local Irish converts.

The gloomy economic news from Ireland has been relentless.

The only jobs expanding, it seems, are those helping people with unemployment benefits. The government just announced that it is hiring an extra 114 workers to deal with the crush.

The government and anti-drugs agencies are ecstatic over the successful capture of a 60 foot yacht, Dances with Waves, and its cargo of up to 4,070 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated €550 million to €750 million, depending on its purity.

Although the haul was still undergoing laboratory analysis this week, Gardai (police) reckoned it was at least 80 percent.

It was the biggest haul of drugs ever captured in Ireland and was described by gangbusters as one of the most devastating blows inflicted on European criminals.

Labor Day, the unofficial last weekend of summer, is usually spent making sure the kids are ready for school, sorting through summer and fall clothes, and perhaps taking a trip to the beach. Take some time to plan some special celebratory cookout and outdoor meals too. Even if you continue grilling through the fall and winter, there's something special about the last summer holiday cookout.

Sort of, but traveling with a U.S. naturalization certificate as a means of re-entry into the country is absolutely not advisable and, in fact, may not work to your satisfaction.