The crux of our contemporary dilemma is not so much silence, as it is the act of silencing. When we refuse to listen to the stories of others, or more poignantly, when we refuse to let others tell ...

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

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 ...

On 6 October 1849, emigrants on board the Brig St. John, caught their first sighting of American land as their vessel approached the coast of Cape Cod. The vessel was carrying as many as 140 ...

Exactly 30 years ago this October, the Northern Ireland civil rights movement burst onto the international scene when television pictures showed marchers being batoned off the streets of Derry by the ...

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 ...

AN ONLINE archive comprising thousands of letters sent from North America by Irish emigrants has been launched by the University of Galway. The Imirce project includes around 7,000 letters, running to ...

His third novel, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, published in 1963, made him famous…and rich.His life had changed forever: he found himself in New York having lunch with Elizabeth Taylor and ...

After his most entertaining End of a Chapter, Mr. Leslie has written what I think will be a more lasting book.The Celt and The World is a sort of bible to Irish patriotism.Mr. Leslie has endeavored 10 ...

The Irish who built the Empire State Building and the photographer who captured the work. In 1908, acclaimed photographer Lewis W. Hine snapped a simple portrait entitled “Irish Steel Worker.” The ...

Brian Donnelly (1946-2023) Former congressman and champion of Irish immigration reform Brian Donnelly died in February, aged 76. Over his 24-year career in public service, Donnelly was most widely ...

The Impact of the Election Results on Irish Issues. With one or two notable exceptions, the November 1998 elections saw those politicians most influential on Irish affairs safely re-elected to their ...