It's called the Irish Sea. But the Irish Navy hardly rules the waves the length and breadth of it. The British are to be found on its waters of cou...

[Top: “Above all! Let’s not talk about the Dreyfus Affair!” Bottom: “They talked about it…” Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair. Univ...

Errigal Ciarán (Tyrone) 0-14; Clann Eireann (Armagh) 1-10 Trying to separate these two totally committed sides was always going to take something s...

Pic of Day: With just three days to go before the general election Sinn Féin party leader Mary Lou McDonald holds what she hopes is a prophetic t s...

Pat Donaghy with Gerry Adams at the Friends of Sinn Féin dinner in New York in 2014. Photo by Nuala Purcell. The death has taken place of Pat Donag...

Pic of Day: With the Irish general election set for the end of this week, Friday the 29th, all politicians and party leaders are out and about spea...

It's called the Irish Sea. But the Irish Navy hardly rules the waves the length and breadth of it. The British are to be found on its waters of cou...

I HAVE been doing a wee bit of canvassing in the General Election in the South. The response has been positive. There are clearly some who see elec...

Since the November 5 election the counting process for the House of Representatives has lumbered on. At time of writing the process is almost compl...

[Top: “Above all! Let’s not talk about the Dreyfus Affair!” Bottom: “They talked about it…” Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair. Univ...

Last weekend I was down at the Baltimore Irish Tenor Banjo Summit doing a little speaking thing on the Flanagan Brothers, a family of traditional m...

Businesses and organisations keen to connect with Irish Americans across the nation are being offered a unique opportunity to get their message acr...

Chicago homicide detective Lt. Dan Shine has plenty of stories to tell me as he celebrates his retirement later this week. Sure there are plenty of...

The first entry in the new 820-page edition of "The Letters of Seamus Heaney" is a missive to his longtime friend, novelist Seamus Deane, dated Dec...

Errigal Ciarán (Tyrone) 0-14; Clann Eireann (Armagh) 1-10 Trying to separate these two totally committed sides was always going to take something s...

Ireland 52; Fiji 17 It may have been only Fiji but a new-look Ireland 15 rediscovered their creativity in attack and doggedness in defense, leaving...