The ethnic cleansing of Ireland: Emmett O'Connell reviews Sean O'Callaghan's book on the Irish whom Cromwell sent into slavery."These Irish, anciently called Anthropophagi (maneaters), have a tradition among them, that when the devil showed our Savior all the kingdoms of the earth and their glory he would not show him Ireland, but reserved it for himself...They are the very … [Read more...] about To Hell or Barbados
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Hibernia: O’Neill Was
a Key Figure on North
New papers show influence with Reagan.℘℘℘Newly released files from the Reagan White House papers show that the Irish-American president was persuaded by a personal appeal by then House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill to intervene in the Northern Ireland issue.The Boston Globe, which surveyed the files under the Freedom of Information Act, revealed that following O'Neill's … [Read more...] about Hibernia: O’Neill Was
a Key Figure on North
Founding Father
A shy priest from Cavan who helped tame a frontier town.Imagine him, pale Irish skin against a black robe. On that bright spring morning in 1845 when he first arrived in the little town that was fast-filling a mud shelf overlooking the Missouri River, the Indians – the Shawnee in their calico flocks and turbans, the Sac and Fox with their shaved heads and painted faces – must … [Read more...] about Founding Father
Our Jack
By Pete Hamill, Contributor
Pete Hamill writes on JFK, our Irish American of the CenturySomewhere in the shadowy land between myth and history lies the domicile of John F. Kennedy. The first United States president of Irish-Catholic descent, Kennedy was a man of many faces: war hero, orator, lover, creator, and visionary. He had it all, and it was all taken away, but in the end he gained immortality.That … [Read more...] about Our Jack
Death of an Activist
By Nell McCafferty
June / July 1999
Two hours passed before she was officially named but most of those who heard the initial news flash knew immediately who had been killed when a bomb exploded on March 15 under the car of an unidentified woman solicitor in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. It had to be Rosemary Nelson. Women have rarely been targeted deliberately. The IRA had never done so. Loyalists had picked off … [Read more...] about Death of an Activist