Books
On This Day: Thomas Francis Meagher, the greatest Irishman in American history, was born
On this day in 1915, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was laid to rest in Dublin, igniting a revolution
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
“Bang Bang” the famous Dublin’s character and lover of Westerns remembered
Remembering Tom Crean, the Co Kerry ice man
Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day reporter who re-invented journalism
How Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was linked to Sligo’s cholera outbreak
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