There was the Famine Commemoration Garden contest for U.C. Berkeley architectural students; a Film Fleadh of new Irish movies ...

A community of feeling. A mythology of the instincts. As pilgrims, we bow our heads on the rocky road and we move on, carrying our humanity, and the humanity of others, from one place to the next. If ...

This month is crunch time for the British government on one of the most prominent legal cases from the Northern Ireland conflict, with London now under severe pressure to set up an inquiry into the ...

CO-FOUNDER OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – 1961 UNITED NATIONS COMMISSIONER FOR NAMIBIA – 1973 AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – 1974 THE LEVIN PEACE PRIZE – 1977 THE AMERICAN MEDAL FOR JUSTICE – 1978 Seán ...

The survivors spent the next few days in the homes of families in Cohasset, before being transferred to the town’s poor-house, where they were all nursed back to health. Miraculously, also, ...

From poor immigrant acceptance – the struggles and triumphs of an Irish American family My County Mayo-born grandfather, David Fleming, could not read or write. He had a brogue so thick I couldn’t ...

How journalist Januarius Aloysius MacGahan, the son of Irish immigrants, helped cause a shift in the European balance of power that made the liberation of Bulgaria possible. “Since my letter of ...

The Connecticut River Valley saw a large number of Irish immigrants in the wake of the Great Famine, and many settled in Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, the upcoming industrial center upriver from ...

The 1900 census for Edward’s sister, Nora (Murphy) Nelligan, showed her in Chicago, Illinois with her husband, daughter, and 30-year-old niece, Julia Murphy. Huh. Edward didn’t have any daughters of ...

INTRODUCTION 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 ...

But Scott’s Celtic heritage did not cripple him, as some have asserted, nor did he deny it as he entered society’s top strata, then crashed down and cracked up. He carried his Irish blood differently ...

On the eve of the IRA ceasefire, August 31, 1994, Crispin Rodwell took this photograph of a young boy on the Antrim Road throwing a ball up against the sidewall of a red-bricked house with bold white ...