I took this image of Tara cross on the evening of May 26th, 2012, almost 214 years to the day that the Battle of Tara took place. On that occasion the fields of Tara ran red with the blood of Irish rebels who had gathered on the hill to engage the occupying forces of...

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Derry City, which will be City of Culture in 2013. Photo: Paul Faith/PA Wire.

“Let it be Legenderry” is the phrase being coined by the Derry-Londonderry 2013 City of Culture initiative, a year-long celebration of the Northern Irish city. There has been a flurry of...

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Mary Josephine McEvoy. Courtesy of Dermot McEvoy.

A search through Dermot McEvoy’s family history revealed an eye-opening secret. Here’s what he discovered, plus a guide to researching your own Irish ancestors. Mary Josephine Kavanagh was born...

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Travel Stories for IA

Donegal: The Forgotten County

An appreciation by Enda Cullen. Apologies to readers from other counties but my mother used to say that Donegal and Clare people were the friendliest...

A Sacred Place: Skellig Michael

Photographer and writer Chris Ryan visited the larger of the two Skellig Islands off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, where an early-medieval...

Girls On A Bus Through Ireland

In August, Irish America’s Tara Dougherty and Sheila Langan went on CIE’s Taste of Ireland Tour. It was a trip not soon to be forgotten. Scroll...