In January 2025, to open the Jubilee of the World of Communication in Rome, the Dicastery for Communication at the Vatican, Colum McCann, author of numerous works and co-founder of Narrative 4 – a ...

A DOCUMENTARY that has just premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival exposes alarming Traveller mental health issues and extremely high rates of suicide within the community. Mind Your Head ...

BOX-IT Athletic Grounds, Armagh 15:45 Ard Mhacha v Doire Pearse Stadium, Salthill 15:45 Gaillimh v Ciarraí O’Neills Healy Park, Omagh 15:45 Tír Eoghain v Áth Cliath Hastings Insurance MacHale Park, 15 ...

Seán MacBride’s career spans the history of independent Ireland. His father was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, when Irish independence was first proclaimed. As a teenager, he fought in ...

The Celtic cross that the Ladies’ Ancient Order of Hibernians Auxiliary dedicated to Great Hunger victims at the Cohasset Cemetery in Massachusetts. Her other books include: Black Abolitionists In ...

And killed ’em all away. Ballad, 1800s. Irish labor became an invaluable resource for the development of America in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the Midwest and Far West, the Great Lakes ...

There is no doubt that Ireland’s sons and daughters played a major role in the battle for American independence from the British Crown. As leading Revolutionary War historian Thomas Fleming has noted, ...

Irish Americans have, for the most part, always thought of F. Scott Fitzgerald as the golden boy they could never claim; part Irish, so goes the common wisdom, that was exactly the part he didn’t like ...

Denis Hayes – recognized around the world as the founder of Earth Day ­with Senator Gaylord Nelson, recently looked back at a key moment in environmental history. “In late January 1969, millions of ...

Niall O’Dowd, Irish America’s publisher, was the guest of honor at the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick’s 239th-anniversary dinner in New York City on March 16, 2023. In his speech to the over 600 members ...

William Penn (1644-1718), the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, promoted principles of freedom that helped lay the framework for First Amendment religious liberty. Before emigrating to America ...

Michael Patrick MacDonald was in the third grade when the anti-busing riots broke out in South Boston in 1974. In his first book, All Souls, he harks back to that chaotic time. He talks to Lauren ...