The Ancient Order of Hibernians, founded in 1836 to combat bigotry against the Irish, state removal of Col. John Fitzgerald’s name on St. Patrick’s Day by City Council of Alexandria, Virginia, sparked action.
Illegal immigrants in the United States are saving social security, paying $23.6 billion in taxes and committing less crime than Americans right now! They must be stopped.
There was no way the Irish could stay out of the debate over historical monuments and memory but should Irish America chose which Irish "heroes" we celebrate?
If Pope Francis fails to engage with Ireland's survivors of abuse and gay couples who feel excluded from the Church he will be letting down an already hugely wounded Catholic Ireland.
Ireland’s leading political party Fine Gael made promises to improve Ireland’s public health system in 2007. Today conditions in Ireland’s Emergency Departments are unacceptable.
It will be the most watched political race this year in Ohio’s 12th District with everything on the line for November. The winner will be known on Tuesday night.
Humanity and insight relevant to the US President today from the famed Irish writer who witnessed horrific treatments of children in Reading Gaol, during his own two-year incarceration.
As the New York Daily News' staff is cut by 50% this old newspaper boy remembers the great Irish American voices who told the New York Irish community's tales.
There was a brief moment in this present Stormont morass that appeared to indicate unionists and republicans in Northern Ireland were ready to begin the long, torturous trek towards compromise.
I share his views but more importantly have been allowed to share his words. This is a fabulous explanation of what has gone wrong in Ireland today and with our friends across the pond. He takes his lead from Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal.
The biggest problem facing the government in Ireland right now is the housing crisis. With house prices and rents soaring, too many people cannot find a place to live they can afford.
The amazing tale of how "My Fair Lady's" George Bernard Shaw and "Sherlock Holmes'" Arthur Conan Doyle fought to save Casement from the hangman’s noose.
Ordinary but extraordinary people’s lives of the last generation of Irish to move to America chronicled as the “Golden Door” has been closed and immigration is no longer an option.
Small Irish villages really ought to inspire more good murders. Think of it, in most of them all of the basic elements of gripping crime fiction are already all in place: spite, envy, malice, corruption, concupiscence and unmitigated greed.
Jiving is a way of life for some and something that every young Irish rural person will have to learn one way or another but how did it become so popular in Ireland?
