The July 12th Orange Order parades have been a point of intense friction in Northern Ireland for many years as Protestants and Catholics clashed over… Read More »Mayhem in New York – Orange Riots of the 1870s
Kissing the Blarney Stone, riding a horse through the lakes and valleys of Killarney, posing at the Giants Causeway – the Kennedy family did all… Read More »Amazing photos from early Kennedy family trips to Ireland
On this day, July 1, 1867, General Brigadier Thomas Francis Meagher died after falling overboard on the Missouri River. In honor of his anniversary, we… Read More »On This Day: Irish American hero Thomas Francis Meagher died in 1867
The White House said on Tuesday, June 18 that President Joe Biden is announcing “new actions for people who have been here many years to… Read More »Will undocumented Irish people in the US be affected by Biden’s new executive actions?
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?
