Hibernia Archive
Hibernia: Those We Lost
Those We Lost Emmett O’Connell (1936-2024) Emmett O’Connell died on September 14, 2024. Named for…
Hibernia: In the News
Historic Elections in Ireland, UK Recent elections in Ireland and the UK have been characterized…
Hibernia: Events
Queen’s Announces Seamus Heaney Fellows for 2024-25 Fiona Benson, Jan Carson, Declan Lawn, and Adam…
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Black Irish Celebration
An extraordinary gathering of Irish and African-American leaders took place at the Irish Consulate in New York on Wednesday night, February 26, 2020 to celebrate Black History Month. Irish Consul […]
The Fighting Irish
When this year’s postponed St. Patrick’s Day parade is rescheduled, the New York Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion (the Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment), led by two Irish wolfhound mascots, will march up Fifth Avenue and mark […]
A Tale of Two Flags
Back in 1974, City Council President Paul O’Dwyer introduced a bill that would change the date on the New York’s flag and seal from 1664 to 1625. The move was […]
You’ve Got Mail: Irish History From Stamps
Over the last four decades, stamp-collecting, also known as “philately,” has been undergoing a slow but sure death. This has been mirrored by a decline in letter-writing and a similar […]
Landmarks Tell The Boston Irish Story
Pictured above: The Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment is a bronze relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. You aren’t in Boston long before realizing what an […]
A Citizen's Assembly on a United Ireland
A united Ireland seems more possible now than at any point in our history “Brexit has catapulted this issue forward,” says Pádraig Ó Muirigh, advisor to the Republican Sinn Féin […]