"It is time for the Irish and their descendants too to step forward to protect their own origin story and with that their understanding of themselves."
Irish trade union leader Mike Quill once offered advice to President Dwight D. Eisenhower when the president became frustrated by a dispute among elite US universities.
Ireland and South Africa both have very strong lessons to teach us about what happens to a society when a powerful minority attempts to call the shots for the majority, instead of sharing power and working together for the good of all.
There is a feeling among some observers that Ireland's Magdalene Laundry and Mother and Baby Homes scandals have been addressed and redressed, but nothing could be further from the truth, this new book reminds us.
As numbers of infections soar in the great southern bastions of GOP power, the death wish has led to an extraordinary scenario where leaders like Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas are openly gambling with people’s lives,
Martin Sheridan and other competitors of the 1906 Olympics have been cheated of their Olympic medals by the International Olympic Committee after they retroactively downgraded the competition.