Cormac MacConnell
Cormac MacConnell is a veteran writer and journalist. His much loved column, about his life in County Clare and observations about Irish life, has appeared in the Irish Voice for close to 30 years.
Latest Stories
The beauty of peace and quiet
A sad St. Patrick’s Day - canceled
Coronavirus and politics - the Wildest of Atlantic Ways
Dear St. Patrick, thanks for Purgatory
If St. Brigid and St. Patrick had an argument
Ireland comes down with General Election 2020 fever
Wise men's gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh - Jesus was a wealthy child at Christmas
My annual pride over my song “Christmas in the Trenches 1915”
A Donald Trump Doonbeg Christmas Carol
Most read
- 1 How hard is it to move to Ireland as an American?
- 2 Inside Ireland’s oldest pub - it might be the oldest in the world!
- 3 What visitors to Ireland should know about midges
- 4 An Cailleach - the Irish goddess of the winter and following her trail in Ireland
- 5 Root vegetable and squash soup with cheese soda bread recipes
- 6 Baileys, Oreos, and chocolate pudding all in one tasty treat!
- 7 Traditional Irish drinks you have to try
- 8 Pagan idol, 100 years pre-St. Patrick, discovered in Roscommon
- 9 Iconic US drink named Ireland’s biggest-selling brand for 17th time