Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has estimated that the damage done to public infrastructure during violent anti-immigrant riots on Thursday night could cost “tens of millions of euro”. Rioters burned three buses, one Luas tram, and three Garda cars, and caused extensive damage to eight further Garda cars on Thursday night after…
Thanksgiving Day is quickly approaching! Below, learn why we eat turkey on Thanksgiving and then let our Irish chef teach you how to perfectly roast it. Although turkeys are the main cuisine of today’s Thanksgiving celebrations, these birds were not the most popular centerpieces on the first Thanksgiving tables. In…
On November 7, 1990, the world lost Tom Clancy to stomach cancer, aged 66. Clancy left behind a wife, son, and five daughters, the youngest of whom was just two years old. The traditional music world was shaken by the loss of one of the Clancy siblings, who strode to…
We are at the dusky twilight of the Stephen Kenny era, with the current manager of the Irish soccer team having as much chance of being offered a second contract as the man on the moon. It is sad that it has come to this for Kenny, who is a…
“The Indigenous discovered Columbus,” expressed Chance Landry, a Native American artist, activist, and a descendant of one of the five great chiefs of the Lipan Apache of Texas. October 9 celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day, formerly recognized in the US as Columbus Day. To honor the history and culture of this…
Do you believe in reincarnation? The concept has not much been discussed in Ireland in the last few centuries what with the disdain that the Catholic Church has for the idea but the concept of finishing one life and starting another in another physical body is one of the world’s…
Research has shown that such was the violence displayed by Cromwell and his forces during the Siege of Drogheda and the subsequent Siege of Wexford that, even by 17th century standards, they can be classed as war crimes. Drogheda was the first major event in the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland,…
As well as its fascinating Viking history, County Waterford has plenty of places to explore. The popular perception of Vikings is tinged with terror. The Irish tend to think of them as ferocious marauders who pillaged monasteries a millennium ago. But there was more to the Vikings than most people…
Before there was Mother Teresa of Calcutta, there was Mother Margaret of New Orleans. Margaret Haughery, also known as the ‘Angel of the Delta,’ ‘Mother of Orphans,’ or the ‘Celebrated Margaret,’ dedicated her adult life to tending to the poor and hungry of Louisiana, with a particular focus on the…
An extract from Michael Scanlon’s book on his life growing up in Irish America, “Rolling Up the Rug: An American Irish Story.” “They were ever so happy, they were ever so sad, To grow old in a new world, through good times and bad. All the parties…