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  1. Irish America magazine: 25 years and growing
    November 11, 09

    Irish America magazine, our sister publication, celebrated 25 years in style last week. We started all those years ago with a cover story that featured five leading Irish Americans - Tip O’Neill, Ronald Reagan, John McEnroe, Maureen O’Hara and Ted Kennedy.

  2. Frank McCourt remembered in story and song at NYC Irish memorial
    October 07, 09

    An unmistakably Irish memorial service was held in upper Manhattan on Tuesday night when the life and work of the incomparable Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish-American writer, was commemorated in story and song.

  3. Mass for Frank McCourt to be held on Irish writer's birthday
    August 18, 09

    Pultizer Prize winning Irish writer Frank McCourt will be given a Mass on Wednesday, August 19 in New York. McCourt would have celebrated his 79th birthday on that day.

  4. Please, no statues! Frank McCourt would rather be remembered with scholarship, says brother
    August 07, 09

    The late, great Frank McCourt would abhor the idea of a statue of him being erected in his hometown of Limerick, according to his brother Malachy.

  5. Bill Clinton attends secret memorial to legendary Frank McCourt
    July 28, 09

    A secret farewell to Frank McCourt last week drew a surprise guest — President Bill Clinton — who attended the event at the Manhattan Club in New York, sources tell IrishCentral.

  6. Devon Murray brings more Irishness to 'Harry Potter'
    June 15, 09

    Irish actor Devon Murray will return in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" as Seamus Finnigan, a.k.a. “O’Flaherty,” another student at Hogwarts who’s known for having his spells blow up in his face – literally.

  7. Danny Boy The Beloved Irish Ballad
    March 10, 09

    Malachy McCourt unravels the mystery of perhaps the most popular Irish song ever in "Danny Boy: The Beloved Irish Ballad." Who is Danny? Why are the pipes calling? And why did Catholic dioceses ban the beloved ballad last summer? It's all here.

    Consider, for example, this potentially blasphemous fact: The famed lyrics to Danny Boy are not Irish and they were not written by an Irishman, and no matter how vehemently the Irish claim authorship to the song, the fact remains that "Danny Boy" was written by, of all people, a British lawyer, McCourt writes.

  8. The Craic Overcoming the Demon of Addiction
    March 10, 09

    On February 17, 1986, after years of addiction and self-destruction, Christopher Kennedy Lawford reached a turning point in his life. At 31 years of age he could only look back on a decade of dangerous addiction, hospital emergency room visits and the utter heartbreak he was causing to the people who loved him. In his recent New York Times bestseller, "Symptoms of Withdrawal," he vividly outlined his descent into near fatal drug and alcohol dependency, but until now he has never tackled what happened to trigger the understanding within himself that he needed to change.

  9. Bloomsday on Broadway XXI
    March 10, 09

    NOW in its 16th year, the annual Bloomsday on Broadway festival on June 16 at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side has become one of the hottest tickets in the New York calendar. Celebrating both James Joyce and Ireland, it's a far cry from the other dried up celebrations of revered authors legendary watering hole McSorley's provides the ale, for example, and you never have to wait long to hear a song. Says festival host Isaiah Sheffer, "It's always a great deal of fun and a lot of work and we're just sending out the scripts now to the 93 readers who will take to the stage on Bloomsday.

  10. Malachy McCourts History of Ireland
    March 10, 09

    Frank McCourt's brother Malachy also keeps himself busy. His latest book is called "Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland." In it, McCourt puts his own spin on thousands of years of Irish history, from Fionn mac Cumaill to Bertie Ahern and Bono.

  11. George McKeown to Lead Queens Parade
    March 09, 09

    Award winning film director Terry George and celebrated Irish singer Susan McKeown have been selected as the grand marshals for this year's inclusive Sunnyside Woodside St. Patrick's Day Parade in Queens on March 1 at 1:30 p.m.

  12. Oh Danny Boy - Shut Up!
    March 09, 09

    FIRST, as legend has it, St. Patrick banned the snakes from Ireland. Then the AOH banned Irish gay groups from the Fifth Avenue parade.

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