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.
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.
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.
"Our county identities and templates are so deeply embedded within our heads...maybe that is both a weakness and a strength of some kind. I am not sure."
We all want to belong and feel like we’re a part of a family. Finding my Irish roots has been very meaningful to me as an adult. Like my uncle Edward, it has brought me a sense of peace and belonging again.
After a long-awaited and much-anticipated decision, President Michael D. Higgins finally announced in early July that he would nominate himself as a candidate in the upcoming presidential election and seek a second term in the country’s highest office. That decision was welcomed across the breadth of the political spectrum, and his candidacy was immediately endorsed by all of the major political parties in Ireland.
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?
We are now a month into what has been declared officially to be a national drought. The last time we had a significant amount of rain was nearly two months ago.
