I may be a Boston native, but for the past 25 years, I've had the privilege of living in three different European countries – each of them called Ireland.
During the 50th anniversary of Northern Ireland's civil rights movement shaking off the paradigm of "good activist v bad terrorist" and finding a more balanced way of looking at the interplay between the republicans and civil rights.
If you were looking for profiles in courage last week you would not have found them among American politicians. Emma Mhic Mhathúna while dying herself likely helped save thousands of Irish women's lives.
Could more Irish American Catholics have been brought into a broader, progressive coalition? Some certainly ran into right-wing arms... but some were also pushed.
What's next and what can we learn after the tragic death of Emma Mhic Mhathúna and the 221 women who were failed by the Irish government and the health system?
I'm quite proud of the fact that I heavily criticized the dreadful Conor McGregor in this space last year, not for his financial feats at all but for draping himself constantly in our proud Tricolor when raking in his brawling millions.
As Brexit hangs in the balance and a referendum on a United Ireland becomes more of a reality it is important to maintain an honest and dedicated commitment to McGuinness’ blueprint.
How much do we know of the fate of the Irish once they traveled to North America? In honor of National Family History Month, we look at what has been written on their experience.
Scared of economic recovery and mono-culturalism, about to legalize abortion, embarrassed by racism, Theresa May's Tory's breaking at the seams... Ireland is living through strange times indeed.
Blinded by her pursuit of what is good for one section of unionism, DUP leader Arlene Foster is endangering the union itself by attacking the spirit and letter of the Good Friday Agreement.
Irish in America are in need of a reminder of just how despised, just how desperate, just how foreign, their ancestors were. And all of that begins with the Famine Irish, streaming off of those coffins ships.
"Looking at this history allows us to highlight the hypocrisy in a historical sense of Irish Americans... and it also enhances our comprehension of the magnitude of the hardships immigrants from the Global South currently face."
With the Ireland Presidential Election on Oct 26 it's already plain to see that there's little chance Michael D Higgins will be defeated and rightly so.
On October 3, 1992, Sinéad O'Connor tore up a picture of the then Pope on Saturday Night Live. You believe she deserves an apology for the criticism she has faced in the following decades.
