A review of "The Pocket Biography Of Oscar Wilde", edited By Tony Potter. What is tragic is that Oscar Wilde seemed not to believe in evil, or that it could ever lay a hand on him, at least at first.
As US President Donald Trump battles with immigration policy after the world was shocked by the 2,342 children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border it's fair to question what Donald Trump's mother's people in Scotland would think of it all.
Outrage over how child migrants have been separated from their families at the US border has crossed the Atlantic and put the spotlight firmly on the inadequacies of the system used to detain asylum-seekers in Ireland.
New York Irish celebrate the departing Chairman of the St. Patrick's Day parade Dr. John Lahey who stepped into the lion's den and has changed the celebration forever.
Trump may have signed an Executive Order on Wednesday that he claimed would stop family separation but with his zero-tolerance policy still in place, what can we do to protect immigrant families?
Attitudes have certainly shifted. As the European migrant crisis continues many EU leaders could well be tuning in to Britain's Boris Johnson's thoughts.
Donald Trump’s separation of children from parents is not new. It could have come right out of the British government's treatment of Irish kids during the Great Hunger when half the one million victims were children.
Celebrating Austin Currie and the start of the Northern Irish non-violent civil rights movement which all started on June 20 with a sit-in over housing.
"Irish Americans became quite comfortable flapping their right wings." Less than a decade after John F Kennedy's election they voted for Richard Nixon... so what will follow Donald Trump?
How observing two garden ornaments in the lazy summertime lead our man Cormac MacConnell to realize a connection between it and the real Donald Trump's actions.
The poor scribes of yore who were spiritual calligraphers and illuminators of Ireland's most famous book, many housed in Trinity College Dublin, the monks and scholars of Ireland.
The deaths of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade have once again forced people to confront suicide and learn how it can be prevented - but it is not easy.
Joyce is celebrated for his wit, use of stream of consciousness, and challenging what a novel can be and do. That doesn't mean that the difficulty of reading "Ulysses" hasn't put one or two of us off. We go through the various stages of reading Joyce.
Remembering an Irish businessman in New York who helped many and could see even beyond their own dreams. Sadly he now continues to watch over us from a better vantage point than ever.
It is unacceptable that as the fifth richest country in the world, Ireland still has over 16% of its population (780,000 people) living below the poverty line, according to the Society of St Vincent de Paul charity.
