Doesn’t everybody long for that bit of nostalgia, not only for events or places in our own past but, perhaps, is there something in our… Read More »Time travel through West Cork 100 years ago with this colorful historic treasure

This letter was written on 22nd September 1850 by Margaret McCarthy to her family and would have served as an emigrant’s guide. She was 22… Read More »Moving letter home to Mom and Dad from an Irish famine emigrant in 1850

The following is excerpted from “They Put the Flag a-Flyin’ The Roscommon Volunteers” by Kathleen Hegarty Thorne. The book is a fascinating account of the… Read More »The Roscommon Volunteers – The common men who freed Ireland

Between the years 1874 and 1955, the political names that brought Ireland to nationhood are legendary: Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera,… Read More »On This Day: Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese

Thomas Clarke, a key member of the Irish revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. was among the rebel leaders executed on May… Read More »On This Day: Tom Clarke, Easter Rising leader, was executed

Ellen Shine was a Cork-born Titanic survivor, who lived to the age of 98. The survivor told tales of how men in steerage were held… Read More »Who was the longest-living Irish survivor of the Titanic?

There is little doubt that many Irishmen enlisted in the Union Army very shortly after their arrival in the United States. Editor’s note: On this day… Read More »On This Day: The US Civil War begins in 1861