Opinion

The 2020 U.S. Census results are out and the Irish of America are all about the place. Over the years, and certainly since the landmark 1980 census...

UP THE SHORE i The lough will claim a victim every year. It has virtue that hardens wood to stone. There is a town sunk beneath its water. It is th...

The ospreys are gone. They left in the weeks after Labor Day. When they get the call – genetic or atmospheric - they don’t delay, it’s a long way t...

It is a truism accepted in most cultures that children thrive in a supportive family and in a community where they feel valued and encouraged. The ...

The world returns to Manhattan this week for the annual gathering that is the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. For some, the visits ...

The New York Times described Megan Stack's Sunday, September 3 Opinion Section front page story as an "essay." Some essay. Stack, billed by the Tim...

As regular readers of this column know I have been involved for a very long time in the campaign to protect and develop as a historic and cultural ...

In John Lennon’s fine album titled “Working Class Hero” he bemoans the betrayal of the American working class, “duped by religion, sex and TV” into...

I often take a train to New Haven nowadays, and since I find trains very relaxing I invariably feel drowsy as we pull out of Grand Central Station....

As the British government barrels along towards passing its widely unwanted legacy bill, and before he set off for a visit to the Middle East, Tána...

In 1986 I gave a talk at a Sinn Féin conference which became known by activists of my vintage as The Road to Cork or The Bus to Cork. More of that ...

In her recent erudite book, "Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and the Far Right," Mary Jo McConahay describes in detail how the American Cath...