The President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins paid tribute to the First Nations of Canada and Native Americans for their contributions to Irish Famine relief in 1847 at the National Famine Commemoration ...

Poet, musician, singer, wit, polemicist, journalist, biographer and letter-writer, Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 – February 25,1852) was one of the most brilliant figures of the Regency as well as the ...

One warm summer evening last year, I picked up a first edition of The Country Girl from the bookshelf in a house where I was staying and I did not leave my place by the window until I had read it from ...

The visa program, which in 1991 was made law due to the push of former Congressman Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.), and Senator ...

FOLLOWING Pope Francis’s death on April 21, 2025, the College of Cardinals convened to elect his successor. The conclave began on May 7, 2025, with 133 cardinal electors participating. Two who were ...

TAOISEACH Michel Martin has offered his condolences to the family of a garda who lost his life i… News from Ireland and happenings in Irish America..

THE family of a man who was killed in a collision in Greater Manchester this month have paid an e… Remembering some of the great Irish Americans who have passed..

THE CAMOGIE squads of Cork and Waterford have released a joint statement condemning the postponem… Remembering some of the great Irish Americans who have passed..

Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief. The sound of bagpipes in the distance drifts in through the open window of the yellow cab as I head down Broadway to New York University. It’s the first real spring ...