Slainte: The Irish Wake
Nearly thirty-eight years ago an exuberant friend named Eddie burst into the office where I was working as assistant to a...
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The Pirate Queen
The producers of The Pirate Queen, husband-and-wife team Moya Doherty and John McColgan, talk to Cahir O’Doherty. Between the first draft and the opening night the challenge of mounting a Broadway...
MoreThe First Word: That Time of Year!
Mórtas Cine. Pride in our heritage! It’s that time of year, and thought we don’t need an occasion to feel pleased to be Irish, it’s kind of nice to be the center of attention as...
MoreSinn Féin Endorses PSNI
Sinn Féin voted to support the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) – formerly the RUC – at an extraordinary Ard Fheis (party congress) attended by nearly 1,000 delegates in Dublin. The...
MoreThe Irish Channel Salutes St. Patrick
With multiple events spotlighting the Irish heritage of New Orleans on St. Patrick’s Day, the largest and one of the more historic is the Irish Channel St. Patrick’s Day Club, which this year...
MoreHizzoner
Mayor Richard J. Daley is back among us – live on the Chicago stage It’s him. The legendary Mayor Richard J. Daley, in the opening scene, kneeling to take morning communion as the priest says...
MoreIrish Eye on Hollywood
March marks the release of two big Cillian Murphy films. First there is the American release of the Irish Civil War drama The Wind that Shakes the Barley, which won major praise at the recent...
MoreThe West’s Awake
Bucking a century-old trend, the West of Ireland now appeals to Americans and U.S. companies to come live, work and set up businesses there. Reversing a century-old trend of emigration from the West...
MoreThose We Lost
A tribute to some of the fine Irish-Americans who touched our lives Of the thousands of men and women who have given their lives in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the deaths of three young...
MoreBook Corner
Tom Deignan reviews the latest Irish and Irish-American books Recommended: Nothing But an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, The Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation It’s been 25...
MoreNew York City Redux
Music Columnist Ian Worpole chronicles his return to the Big Apple Having spent a rowdy ten years in a cheap loft in Tribeca, New York City (Cheap! It wasn’t quite yet an oxymoron twenty years...
MoreSlainte: The Irish Wake
Nearly thirty-eight years ago an exuberant friend named Eddie burst into the office where I was working as assistant to a Hollywood producer commanding, “Come with me right now. I want to introduce...
MoreA Day to Make St. Patrick Proud
Maeve Binchey, the renowned Irish author, explains how St. Patrick’s Day has changed in Ireland. St. Patrick’s Day used to be the dullest day in the Irish calendar until we got sense and learned...
MorePhoto Album
In the above photograph, taken in Lockport, New York in 1914, my grandmother Mary Fitzsimons Dowd (front, right) is pictured with four of her children and one grandchild. Mary Fitzsimmons was born in...
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Irish Eye on Hollywood
March marks the release of two big Cillian Murphy films. First there is the American release of the...
The Irish Channel Salutes St. Patrick
With multiple events spotlighting the Irish heritage of New Orleans on St. Patrick’s Day, the...
The West’s Awake
Bucking a century-old trend, the West of Ireland now appeals to Americans and U.S. companies to...
Sinn Féin Endorses PSNI
Sinn Féin voted to support the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) – formerly the RUC –...