Niall O'Dowd

Niall O'Dowd

Niall is the Founder of IrishCentral as well as of Irish America Magazine and the Irish Voice Newspaper. He is also responsible for publishing IrishCentral.com community newspaper and The Irish Emigrant newspaper, in Boston.

He founded the Wall Street 50 awards, the Top 100 Irish Americans, the Business 100 and more recently the Top 50 Women in Business and the Irish Legal 100 awards.

Niall was awarded an honorary doctorate by University College Dublin for his work on the Irish peace process, which was a subject of a book, "Daring Diplomacy" and a PBS Special, "An Irish Voice."

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Opinion

Opinion

Boris Johnson has signed the death warrant of the United Kingdom

The landslide victory by Boris Johnson and his Tory Party in the British general election is a triumph for English nationalism but raises big questions about Scotland and Northern Ireland’s future in the United Kingdom.

Opinion

Opinion

How Christmas was in my father’s time

This Christmas season, I think about Christmas in Ireland when my father was young, and how the world has changed since that time.

Niall O'Dowd

Niall O'Dowd

Why Scorcese’s The Irishman disappoints

Am I the only one who didn't really like The Irishman?

Craic

Craic

Reasons to say Bah Humbug! at Christmas

Ebenezer Scrooge had it right. There is so much palaver about Christmas these days that we should just skip it altogether.

History

History

Pathé newsreel shows Michael Collins sign "his own death warrant" on this day in 1921

Rare video of Michael Collins, from Britain's Pathe newsreel, taken on the day he “signed his own death warrant” at a time when the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 was at the most critical moment.

Niall O'Dowd

Niall O'Dowd

Randy Andy scandal and Brexit are busting up Britain

With the Prince Andrew / Jeffrey Epstien scandal and England's anti-European campaign casting them into the past a dread new reality for England is emerging.

History