Celebrating St. Patrick
in the United States
Some of the biggest and best parades celebrating Ireland’s patron saint actually take place in America. New York may have...
More“Jimmy’s not just a cop’s cop. He’s a New Yorker’s New Yorker.” When it comes to James O’Neill, New York City’s 43rd and current police commissioner, those words by Chirlane McCray,...
MoreJohn Dearie may not remember the specific year, but he remembers a very small, very important detail about one New York City St. Patrick’s Day parade in the late 1980s. “I remember seeing all of...
MoreHe’s been praised by the New York Daily News as the “Dean of Irish Radio in the United States,” by New York Newsday as “a promoter of incredible charm and energy,” by The Irish...
MoreThere is a thread that links each of Terry George’s films, and it comes directly from his life. “I’m talking about ordinary people struggling against oppression,” he tells Irish America....
MoreThe year is 1980. A former movie actor, Ronald Reagan, whose great-grandfather was an emigrant from the village of Ballyporeen in County Tipperary, is the newly-elected, 40th president of the...
MoreAt first the names Arturo and O’Farrill don’t seem to belong together. But, in the long, romantic history of the Hibernia-Hispania connection, they do: Bernardo O’Higgins liberated Chile; the...
MoreIt was the first time that I knew the full weight of Irish America. Coming from a small country with few people, it’s difficult for an immigrant to grasp that in a place as big as America, the...
MoreTrinity College Dublin (TCD) celebrated the digitization of the Dublin Apocalypse manuscript, one of great medieval treasures of TCD’s library, on February 1. The 14th-century Latin manuscript of...
MoreIn Nora Connolly’s 1935 memoir of her father, James Connolly, she mentions a play of his entitled The Agitator’s Wife, which scholars have never been able to find. A short story of the same name...
MoreIreland, the first to ban smoking in public places and the first to charge for plastic bags in supermarkets, is now taking it one step further. The Irish government has prohibited the purchase of all...
MoreSuad Al Darra, a master’s student studying computer science at NUI Galway’s College of Engineering and Informatics, was one of five winners at the recent Techfugees Global Challenge competition....
MoreIrish Plant and Animal Life Endangered ℘℘℘ One third of the species of Irish plant and animal wildlife are in danger of extinction, according to the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT). On the...
MoreIreland’s nurses went on strike on January 30 in a dispute over pay and staff shortages. There were three separate 24-hour stoppages and a planned three-day strike set for February 12, until the...
MoreArecently discovered 15th-century Irish vellum manuscript reveals a connection between Gaelic Ireland and the Islamic world, and illustrates that medical scholarship in medieval Gaelic Ireland was on...
MoreTHE IRISHMAN FOR 2020? It’s time for Academy Award predictions – for 2020! It’s never too early to look ahead and see which films Hollywood honchos are positioning as Oscar bait, to lure...
MoreKevin Roche, the prominent Dublin-born, American architect who brought his modernist style to many significant buildings, passed away on Friday, March 1, at his home in Guilford, Connecticut, at the...
MoreSome of the biggest and best parades celebrating Ireland’s patron saint actually take place in America. New York may have the largest parade in the country, but it’s followed closely by Savannah,...
MoreOver 150 young business leaders from the U.S. and abroad gathered in New York City for The Ireland Funds’ 8th Annual Global Young Leaders Summit, hearing from many industry and government leaders....
MoreBoth the Ireland-U.S. Council’s 27th Annual Winter Meeting and the Ireland Funds’ 29th Annual Emerald Isle Palm Beach Dinner Dance took place in Palm Beach, Florida, over Valentine’s Day. At...
MoreThe crowd-pleasing rugby play Alone It Stands scored Best Production at the 2019 Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival’s closing night festivities at the Manhattan Club at Rosie O’Grady’s in...
MoreAlumni of University College Cork got together at NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House, for a reception hosted by the president of UCC, Professor Patrick O’Shea. Graduates were updated on the...
MoreBaroness May Blood, recently retired from the U.K.’s House of Lords after a long and very distinguished career, was celebrated in New York City in January at an Ireland Funds reception held in...
MoreThe troubles of Brexit do not stop at the E.U. border. The American Brexit Committee convened in New York City on January 24 to assess how Great Britain’s exit from the European Union will affect...
MoreSimon Coveney, the Tánaiste (Ireland’s deputy prime minister) was in New York in February to support Ireland’s campaign for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, the election for...
MoreMark Condren pitched the idea of an NYPD-centric coffee table book to Commissioner James O’Neill in 2016 after finishing a similar project about Ireland’s police force, the Garda. O’Neill was...
MoreThe awarding-winning writer Alice McDermott and Pittsburgh business leader Jim Rooney were honored at the annual Glucksman Ireland House NYU Gala on February 28. Some 300 gathered to toast the...
MoreNowadays people think of Bob Downey as actor Robert Downey, Jr.’s father, but back in the ’60s and ’70s he was celebrated for his avant-garde movies – most notably, his 1969 satire Putney...
MoreSinger and author Judy Collins, just off an 18-month tour with Stephen Stills, and with hit song “Dreamers” on the Billboard charts, was back in New York City, her home since the ’70s, on...
MoreIrish Ambassador to the United States Daniel Mulhall presented the Irish American Business Chamber & Network Awards at a luncheon on Friday, March 1, at the Union League of Philadelphia. Over 600...
MoreAuthor Mary Pat Kelly launched her latest his torical fiction novel, Irish Above All, with a gathering at the Irish Rep. on February 11. It was a lovely celebration of Irish America, as Kelly...
MoreRecent passings in the Irish and Irish American communities. ℘℘℘ Eileen Battersby. Eileen Battersby (1958 – 2018) Former literary critic and correspondent for the Irish Times Eileen Battersby...
MoreThe Transatlantic Connection That Inspired a Tribal Anthem: An encounter in Galway 20 years ago led Steve Earle to write one of his most beloved songs. Today, the connection between this small Irish...
MoreAn American pioneer of dance and an important figure in both the arts and history, Isadora Duncan was known as the “Mother of Modern Dance.” ℘℘℘ “Sans Limites” Oh, body swayed...
MoreIrish America looks back at the legacy of St. Patrick’s Battalion, an honor-bound group of Irishmen that championed the cause of the smaller Mexican force against the might of the American army...
MoreA one-armed Irishman with a bat… It just sounds problematic. And baseball player Hugh “One Arm” Daily was indeed a problematic guy. His predicament made it impossible for him to succeed as...
More“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.” – Anonymous ℘℘℘ When people who live elsewhere than Los Angeles phone me and ask “How’s the...
MoreRecently published books by Irish and Irish-American authors. ℘℘℘ In the Galway Silence by Ken Bruen The Galway Tourist Office must just brace itself every time there’s a new book out by...
MoreMembers of the O’Neill Clan (anglicized from Ui Néill, “Néill” meaning “champion”) can trace their origins back to Niall Noígíallach “of the Nine Hostages” (c. 361-452). Niall...
MoreMy grandfather, Patrick Joseph Killen, (“Pop”), was born in Downpatrick, County Down, in 1897. He sailed with his sister Margaret for America in 1911, and arrived in New York on his 14th...
MoreSuad Al Darra, a master’s student studying computer science at NUI Galway’s College of...
Nowadays people think of Bob Downey as actor Robert Downey, Jr.’s father, but back in the ’60s...
The troubles of Brexit do not stop at the E.U. border. The American Brexit Committee convened in...
Both the Ireland-U.S. Council’s 27th Annual Winter Meeting and the Ireland Funds’ 29th Annual...
Ireland’s nurses went on strike on January 30 in a dispute over pay and staff shortages. There...
The crowd-pleasing rugby play Alone It Stands scored Best Production at the 2019 Origin 1st Irish...
Some of the biggest and best parades celebrating Ireland’s patron saint actually take place in...
Over 150 young business leaders from the U.S. and abroad gathered in New York City for The Ireland...
Alumni of University College Cork got together at NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House, for a reception...
Author Mary Pat Kelly launched her latest his torical fiction novel, Irish Above All, with a...
Mark Condren pitched the idea of an NYPD-centric coffee table book to Commissioner James O’Neill...
Singer and author Judy Collins, just off an 18-month tour with Stephen Stills, and with hit song...
THE IRISHMAN FOR 2020? It’s time for Academy Award predictions – for 2020! It’s never too...
Simon Coveney, the Tánaiste (Ireland’s deputy prime minister) was in New York in February to...
Arecently discovered 15th-century Irish vellum manuscript reveals a connection between Gaelic...
In Nora Connolly’s 1935 memoir of her father, James Connolly, she mentions a play of his entitled...
Baroness May Blood, recently retired from the U.K.’s House of Lords after a long and very...
The awarding-winning writer Alice McDermott and Pittsburgh business leader Jim Rooney were honored...
Ireland, the first to ban smoking in public places and the first to charge for plastic bags in...
Irish Plant and Animal Life Endangered ℘℘℘ One third of the species of Irish plant and...
Irish Ambassador to the United States Daniel Mulhall presented the Irish American Business Chamber...
Trinity College Dublin (TCD) celebrated the digitization of the Dublin Apocalypse manuscript, one...