Known as The Orchard County, Armagh’s gently rolling hills are stitched with over 6,000 acres of Bramley apple trees. In autumn, the county bursts into harvest celebration, culminating in the Armagh ...
THE INDEPENDENT, left-wing candidate Catherine Connolly has won a landslide victory in Ireland’s presidential election. The Galway native, who has served as TD for Galway West since 2016 and in 2020 ...
A WOMAN who entered a home that was on fire to rescue a teenager trapped inside has been honoured for her bravery. Belfast woman Naomi Mainwaring was working from home, during Storm Eowyn, on January ...
The Comstock Lode in Nevada, uncovered in 1859 by two Irish laborers, ultimately produced more than $500 million worth of silver, a large share of which went to the Irish-American “Big Four” – James ...
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 ...
From the Civil War to Chicago’s Mercy Hospital, the extraordinary history of Irish nuns in health care. The Sisters of Mercy were the first women to go with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War ...
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 name Grosse Ile (Big Island) is almost a generic term on the map of North America, it appears in so many places. But there is one island by that name that far outstrips the others for the drama ...
This exchange in a novel about college sports in the 1920s catches the prejudices that many Americans of the time held toward citizens of Irish-Catholic descent. However, unlike other immigrant groups ...
Women rarely have their faces on currency. Except, of course, for the recently departed Queen Elizabeth II who was on the currency of Great Britain and her colonies for over 70 years and, until ...
The evolution of the Irish-American policeman – in real life and on screen. In the classic 1954 Looney Tunes cartoon entitled “Bugs and Thugs,” everybody’s favorite animated rabbit gets himself caught ...
In the sleepy town of Ridgeway, Ontario – just a stone’s throw from Crystal Beach, the “Southern Shore of Canada” and former home to the Niagara region’s most beloved amusement park – there stands a ...
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