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Frank McCourt Summer School returns to New York City

The University of Limerick/Frank McCourt Summer School in New York will return to Glucksman Ireland House this year for an intensive June 27 to 30 run

History

History

Recalling a time when the Irish in America loved immigrants

An excellent, insightful but also depressing book called "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."

Irish Voice

Irish Voice

GAA is the best salve of all

Zam Buk which, if you were born in Ireland anytime during the last century, was liberally smeared upon your bodily hurts by the wise mothers.

Irish Voice

Irish Voice

U2’s Adam Clayton on fame, his battle with alcohol and the demons that lurk

U2 bassist Adam Clayton has opened up about his battle against alcohol and his dealings with fame, saying that demons still lurk and he works hard at keeping them at bay

Other Writers

Other Writers

Ireland’s broadband plan’s disconnect

The Irish government's National Broadband Plan for Ireland's scale is breathtaking but is it even possible?

Irish Voice

Irish Voice

Months mind for Lyra McKee murdered by New IRA held in Belfast

Journalist Lyra McKee will be remembered in Derry to mark one month since she was murdered by the New IRA

Irish Voice

Irish Voice

Ballymurphy British paratrooper confirms shoot to kill policy

A British paratrooper wept as he told an inquest that out of control soldiers were prepared to shoot anyone on the streets during the Ballymurphy killings in West Belfast

Irish Voice

Irish Voice

Shannon Gaels GAA club's field of dreams officially opens

After ten years of endeavor Shannon Gaels GAA club, in Queens, celebrated its official opening with hundreds of players and parents in attendance

Irish Voice

Northern Ireland unionists hold only answer to Brexit madness

Could the Democratic Unionist Party and Ireland’s border with the United Kingdom hold the only sane answer to the Brexit shambles?

Cahir O'Doherty

Vulture funds are manufacturing homelessness worldwide

Statistics show us that the numbers of homeless in New York City have reached the highest levels since the Great Depression of the 1930s

Irish Voice

Take my organs… but with some stipulations

There are so many surreal stories this May along both coasts of the Wild Atlantic Way that it is extremely hard to sort them all out into any kind of order at all.

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Leading Irish Ultra Athlete’s odyssey ends in New York City

One of Ireland's leading ultra-athletes received a hero's welcome after successfully completing a back-breaking 5,000km coast-to-coast bike-and-run trek across the US

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Quinnipiac's Ireland's Great Hunger Institute hosts charity famine walk

“Walking in the Footsteps…of our Irish Famine Ancestors” 5k walk plans to honor those who are suffering from famine or displacement

Irish Voice

Michael Fassbender at the races back home in County Kerry

X-Men: Dark Phoenix star took part in the Rally of the Lakes in Killarney and took time to speak to local students during his vacation back home in Ireland

Irish Voice

Grief Is The Thing With Feathers at St. Ann's Warehouse

Playwright Enda Walsh is back with his theatrical adaptation of Max Porter's bestselling book Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, a searing meditation on what happens when a family lose their guiding star

Irish Voice

Eugene O'Neill's legacy to be celebrated with linked American and Irish festivals

You can enjoy the plays Of Eugene O'Neill in a newly liked Irish and American festival of his works in Ireland, taking in the local sites and enjoying his artistic legacy in fathers homeland

Irish Voice

Craic LGBT Fest returns to the Irish Arts Center

The ninth annual Craic LGBT Fest will be presented on Thursday, May 16 at the Irish Arts Center.

Irish Voice

Kenneth Branagh returns, this time as Shakespeare himself in All Is True

From working class, staunchly unionist suburb of Tigers Bay in Belfast to the Oscars in Hollywood is not exactly a well-worn path but (Sir) Kenneth Branagh, 59, has taken it

Irish Voice

“Face” it: Trump has a point over freedom of speech

It's true! The Tweeterer-in-chief is right Facebook is denying even the most offensive posters their Constitutional right to free speech by pulling their posts

Irish Voice

Washington Ireland Program 2019 will host 31 Irish students

Washington Ireland Program announce 31 students from 16 different universities and institutions across the island of Ireland to make up the class of 2019

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Talks to restore Northern Ireland’s government underway

Restoring the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive, which dissolved two years ago, is the aim of the talks following a clear message from the public after UK's general elections

Opinion

Brexit revenge on Tories and Labour and Northern Ireland’s peace surprise

The English and Irish people spoke loudly last week and their message was inescapable

Irish Voice

Hold the Mayo madness - time for GAA to give teams like NY a chance

The Connacht Championship has become an exercise in futility and many GAA games have become meaningless.

Irish Voice

What's next for declining Independent News and Media after sale

Ireland's largest media house sold by Denis O'Brien to Belgian group Mediahuis, at a great loss, but what's the future for this once dominating Irish Independent News and Media

Homepage

Son of leading IRA man jailed for rape

A man jailed for seven years for the rapes of two teenage boys in a republican “safe house” has been named as the son of Larry Marley, one of the masterminds behind the mass Maze prison escape in 1983 in Northern Ireland

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Irish man paralyzed in Storm Emma accident gets ready to move back home

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My family's Holocaust story recalled during a trip to Limerick

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How Ireland forever changed this shy American girl from Utah

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