How you feel about yourself can have a real impact on your country. No, hear me out, it really can. Everything connects. Your personal psychology affects your group psychology after all. Some psychologists call it the Starbucks factor.
This month The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan are staging two Brian Friel one-act plays that explore love and the tales people tell themselves to make sense of their lives. It's the hottest new ticket off-Broadway.
The dust had hardly settled on the 2018 midterms before anxious Democrats were peering into their crystal balls looking at 2020 and who will run against President Trump.
Three British soldiers will be called for the first time to give evidence in person to an inquiry into the deaths of 10 people 47 years ago in west Belfast into what is known as the Ballymurphy massacre.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
In the best Irish ritual fashion, let’s counter the advent of black November on both sides of the Atlantic by deploying a bit of craic against all its wintry chills and dark realities.
In Northern Ireland a woman who has been raped or abused can still receive a longer prison sentence than her rapist or abuser if she seeks to end the resulting unwanted pregnancy.
Irish New Yorker Nollaig Cleary was severely overweight for most of her life, but now she’s a half-marathon runner who has lost 130 pounds and counting. She tells all about her remarkable weight loss journey.
The Irish in American have a lot to be proud of not least people like Michael Mahoney of Boston Scientific one of the honorees of Irish America magazine’s 50 Healthcare and Life Sciences awards.
In "A Private War" Irish actor Jamie Dornan plays a journalist who risks his own life to bring us the truth about the war in Syria, in a triumphant new film that is a timely reminder of the enduring value of the free press.
Former priest sets out to defend his 42 years in active ministry and the "false and unsubstantiated claims" of sexual abuse made by five accusers against him.
Silenced Irish priest Father Tony Flannery has once again broken ranks with church authorities in Ireland by calling for an overhaul of the ancient seal of Confession.
Top athletes and actors, as well as leading personalities in other careers, have asked the Irish government to defend the rights of citizens north of the border and to attempt to end the uncertainty of Brexit and the deadlocked power-sharing agreement.
It's doubtful you will ever see a more perfectly realized production of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's signature play "Waiting For Godot" than the one that's currently being presented by Galway's celebrated Druid theatre at the Lincoln Center's White Light Festival this week.
With the presidential election over and Michael D. Higgins safely back for another term, politics and pub conversation in Ireland have returned to the dreary normal.
Fifty-five years ago, on November 7, 1963, one of the wildest phenomenons of the 20th century hit Dublin.... a Liverpudlian revolution named The Beatles!
