Opinion

Shane MacGowan was a friend of West Belfast. Back in 1988, in the wake of the killings of IRA Volunteers Mairead Farrell, Dan McCann and Sean Savag...

Like many people who saw the repulsive images of violence from the recent Dublin riot, I felt a range of emotions: disgust, sadness, astonishment, ...

Some British politicians have recently hinted at denying Irish citizens their right to decide in a border poll whether Ireland should be unified. I...

The one thing you hope for when the nations of the world, most of them anyway, gather for a United Nations climate conference, is that they at leas...

I have met many loyalists over a very long time. In prison. Out of prison. In secret or in private talks going back to the 1970s. And many times si...

There were bars, and there were bars, and then there was The Village Pub. It perched atop Bainbridge Avenue in The Bronx. It was a small place owne...

There's no doubt that Ireland is one of the more dedicated members of the United Nations, one of the members that adheres most closely to the UN Ch...

Regular readers will know that Ionad Eileen Howell/St. Comgall’s was formally opened in June by the U.S. Economic Envoy Joe Kennedy. It came after ...

James Baldwin, the great writer and civil rights leader, reflecting on the origin of most wars wrote, "People are trapped in history and history is...

It is that time of year again when we give thanks for all the wonderful things that life in America can bestow. It is also a time of year when we t...

Patrick Ryan’s true-life story reads like fiction; a second-born son reared on a small farm in County Tipperary who went from being a Catholic miss...

Because I host Celtic Crush on SiriusXM, I am occasionally asked about the state of the arts nowadays. Well, Broadway has yet to fully recover from...