American born artist Daniel Mark Duffy has been on the receiving end of a moral debate on modern Ireland. The artist’s provocative nude portraits have drawn both criticism and praise from all corners of Irish society.

Sarah Palin releases her new book 'Going Rogue' this week, and judging by the reviews she really gets her Irish up. John McCain, the media, the Democratic Party, and the know alls in Washington all get it loud and clear from the former Alaska governor.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played a major role in securing the release of Irish priest Fr. Michael Sinnott. The priest was kidnapped 32 days ago by a radical group of Islamic militants called the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

News from the 32: Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Tyrone, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow

The undocumented Irish have picked up a key new supporter in Congress. Congressman Bill Delahunt (D-MA) has pledged to support the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform and its efforts on behalf of the undocumented Irish in the U.S.

Former Taoiseach (prime minister) John Bruton has returned to Ireland after his five-year stint as EU ambassador to Washington, D.C. came to an end on Friday.

For 210 years the body of 28-year-old County Kildare native James Jackson, a young Irish immigrant, had lain undisturbed in the center of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village - until it was uncovered this week.

Notre Dame’s inability to execute in the red zone almost cost them dearly against the Washington Huskies at South Bend Saturday, but some out of this world goal line defense and another clutch game winning drive from Jimmy Clausen saw them win the game in overtime, 37-30.

AJ Voelpel is back with this week's list of movers and shakers in his top dozen college football teams.

With Gallery: Dan "The Da Vinci Code" Brown has just written a book about them, and now a court case in Belfast could unearth some of the most closely-guarded secrets about the one of the most-secret organizations in the world: the Freemasons. The ultimate fraternity, the Freemasons have been around since the end of the 16th century, and rumors abound that some of the most-famous men in the world, from presidents to politicians, count themselves as members.

Irish man Vince Keane from Ballyhaunis County Mayo is helping U.S. President Barack Obama to try and overhaul the health care system in the

The last moments of Senator Edward Kennedy were recalled today by Paul Hill, who is married to Robert Kennedy's daughter Courtney. Hill said that as Kennedy lay dying, the last sound he would have heard would have been his grandchildren splashing in the waters of Nantucket Sound outside his Hyannis Port home.

The late conservative columnist and TV host Bob Novak was a highly unlikely convert to Catholicism, but in 1998 the Jewish reporter who died of a brain tumor on Tuesday did just that at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Washington.

U2 broke another record on Friday night when they played in front of 88,000 people at Wembey stadium, breaking the record attendance at the venue, previously held by U.S. rockers The Foo Fighters, by 5,000.

I take very strong issue with the piece by Niall Stanage – “Clinton saga highlights ludicrous notions about importance of Irish in America” in the August 8th edition of The Irish Times.

Middleweight Andy Lee (18-1) has a new opponent for his August 21 fight at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. Out is Jose Humberto Corral (18-13), and the man stepping into the breach is Anthony Shuler (20-6-1).

U2 may have pumped $70 million into the Irish economy with their three Dublin shows in July, but the Irish have returned the favor by helping the band to rake in over $100 million in just its first 13 shows.

The Brady family name derives from the Gaelic McBradaigh, which was originally anglicized as McBrady, but the Mc is very seldom used in modern times. The vast majority of this power clan of Breffny, now the County of Cavan, come from Ulster. A smaller group of Bradys (formally O'Brady) come from County Clare.

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

U2 have boosted the Irish economy by a whopping $70m with their three shows in Dublin this weekend. Experts say the band's three sell-out shows at Croke Park pumped $50m into Ireland's faltering economy. Restuarants, bars and hotels reported bumper earningas as fans flocked to the Irish capital to see the boys from Northside.

Notre Dame's Fighting Irish will take on Army's Black Knights at new Yankee Stadium on November 20.

The three young Texas men who were refused entry into Ireland by the Garda (police) National Immigration Bureau over a week ago were photographed happily sipping pints of Guinness at the Dubliner Bar hours after clearing immigration in Dublin Airport on Tuesday, July 14.

Thanks to IrishCentral, three backpackers from Texas who were refused entry into Ireland last week have been offered an all-expense paid trip back to the Emerald Isle by an Irish hotel group, and now an ad featuring a cowboy is being made in their honor.

On any given day a young County Mayo man can be found chauffeuring tourists around Central Park on the back of his rented Pedi-cab, winning them over with his charm and wowing them with his in-depth knowledge of the city.

There’s a real benefit to George Lee’s recent elevation to savior of the nation as one of the newest members of the Dail (Parliament) -- we no longer have to listen to his moans and groans on our national radio station.

IrishCentral has established the Irish links to both the “Twilight” vampire craze and the “Harry Potter” phenomenon. So now, through green-tinged lenses, we take a closer look at the two phenomena and ask: which epic series is better?

The independence that we celebrate on this July 4 weekend was fought for by many brave men who paid the ultimate price so that Americans could call their country their own and enjoy all the privileges and freedom that accompany.

IRELAND is set to become the first country to have full pre-clearance facilities for travelers wishing to visit the U.S. U.S. Secretary for the

Ireland could be home to two detainees from the US camp at Guantanamo Bay. Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin says the Government may resettle two men from Uzbekistan once they are released.

This Father's Day, make your Irish pop grilled steak and eggs with beer and molasses. He deserves breakfast in bed, maybe with a beer too!

Mayor Shirley Franklin believes that the placement of an Irish consulate in Atlanta will enhance the city's reputation as a global business and cultural center.

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

Callie Cooper of the Comerford School in the Seattle area was the adjudicators’ choice as “Most Promising Dancer” at the recent Pacific Northwest Irish Dance Championships Feis in Seattle, May 16-17.

The packed crowd at the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform meeting in Yonkers last week, including a sea of new faces, points out yet again the importance of the immigration lobby organization.

The name Walsh or Welsh is one of the most numerous of the Norman associated names found in Ireland. It seems to have been the name used independently by the many different groups of Welsh people who arrived in Ireland with the Normans during the 12th century. The name simply means Welshman and its early Norman form was "Le Waleys" but this became gradually anglicized to Walsh.

A large crowd gathered at the Irish Cultural Center of New England in Canton, Massachusetts on Monday night to hear from the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR).

ABC’s hit TV show WifeSwap features an Irish family from Pennsylvania whose motto is “"if you are lucky enough to be Irish, you are lucky enough!"

Bryan Fitzgerald previews the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA basketball championship tournament.

President Barack Obama is to give the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame’s graduation ceremony this May. The president will also be awarded an honorary doctorate at the

President Barack Obama today nominated Steelers boss and American Ireland co-founder Dan Rooney as his Ambassador to Ireland

Long Island mom Jean O’Dowd is proud of her Irish heritage. So imagine her shock when her son Patrick's school, Roanoke Elementary, left her a pre-recorded message that St. Patrick’s Day was no longer operative and instead March 17 would be “heritage day.”

The key U.S. supporter of IRA dissidents has said that the deadly attacks on British soldiers and a Northern Ireland policeman last week were inevitable. While the rest of the world reacted angrily and massive demonstrations for peace were held in Ireland, the small cadre of dissident supporters in America stuck to their guns. John McDonagh, head of the Irish Freedom Committee stated that the dissidents who carried out the attacks “probably couldn’t care less about this peace process, because it means nothing to ending the partition of Ireland.”

  New York's Senator Charles Schumer is the new chairman of the Senate Immigration-Sub

In an exclusive, IrishCentral.com can reveal that on Monday morning the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister)

A FEW weeks back we published the list of U.S. history and civics questions provided by the U.

THE U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) reported lots of good news in a press release last week, including the fact that more than one million immigrants became naturalized U.

New York's Irish American Republicans (IAR), the local chapter of the national organization dedicated to promoting the principles of the Republican Party, were in a celebratory mood at an awards ceremony in Langan's on West 47th Street on Thursday evening. The 12th annual IAR awards reception attracted a well healed crowd of over 60 guests to the upscale bar and restaurant to honor three prominent Irish American Republicans - William Flynn, chairman emeritus of Mutual of America; Long Island Congressman Peter King, honorary co-chair of the IAR; and Alana Sweeney, a member of the 2008 GOP platform committee. As hors d'oeuvres were served and the music played there was no trace of the gloom hanging over Republican circles in Washington since the departure of George W.

One does not approach a book written by a fellow named Joseph Califano expecting to hear much about the Irish-American experience. But as it turns out, Califano - who would go on to become a major power broker and policy expert in Washington - has a grandfather who was the child of Famine immigrants, a fact he recalls with great detail in his new memoir "Inside: A Public and Private Life." Califano's book charts his path from the gritty streets of 1940s Brooklyn to a the power corridors of Washington.

For many years one of my favorite ways to pass a Sunday afternoon was to pop along to the venerable Irish hooley known as Father Charlie's Rhinecliff session. On the banks of the Hudson River, about two hours north of NYC in the back room of the old crumbling Rhinecliff hotel beneath one bare light bulb, Father Charlie Coen, now Monsignor, hosted and performed with the cream of visiting Irish musicians. Everyone came, and many credited Charlie as one of their first inspirations.

St. Louis is never considered one of those traditionally Irish cities. "Leading historians of Irish-America.