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

THE late Garda Kevin Flatley who died while on duty was remembered as 120 new officers were sworn into An Garda Síochána this month. Justice Minister Jim O’Callghan attended the attestation ceremony ...

GLOBAL popstar Ed Sheeran has confirmed he “identifies culturally” as Irish. The 34-year-old singer, who has produced countless hits in a career which has now stretched over more than a decade, was ...

“It is fitting that the Irish language will be visible at the station for Irish language commuters but also for the many visitors to the city. “This is a positive development to promote wider ...

Music and Parades Around the United States It would not be Irish Heritage Month without Irish music and parades to celebrate. For the past 34 years, Brendan Dunphy has compiled a list of festivities ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

MET ÉIREANN has issued a series of weather warnings as Ireland prepares for an Arctic blast over the coming days. The meteorological service issued an advisory for the whole country warning that ...

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 ...