Opinion

I want to extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Ashling Murphy. The spontaneous public outpouring of grief at her murder under...

At one point during the months of Covid-19 lockdown I came across another side of branding and public relations. The lesson came courtesy of the Ir...

Back in the early years of the twentieth century the European military powers began to engage in a major arms race. That race would wind its way al...

A few months ago, my son-in-law, Jimmy Frawley, who lives in Dublin, brought two of his children, aged 10 and 15, on a weekend trip to Belfast. He ...

The narrow vote in the Dáil 100 years ago last week in favor of the Treaty imposed the partitionist institutions demanded by the British under thre...

After a summer of fires consuming vast areas of wilderness and destroying entire communities we are now in the season of fires in close packed urba...

This year marks the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the American Irish Historical Society. In a time of ethnic and nati...

Our old pal Tom Hartley is a fine singer. He and I have been known to duet together. Back in the day, in C Wing in Belfast Prison on the Crumlin Ro...

As the final days of 2021 were being counted down a number of communities in Colorado were reminded, cruelly, of how much of what happens in this w...

This year marks the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the American Irish Historical Society. In a time of ethnic and nati...

I like Christmas. I like the Christmas story. Joseph and Mary and the wee donkey fleeing from the Roman occupation forces. The baby Jesus being bor...

Not too long ago there was an expectation that Christmas 2021 would be more "normal" than Christmas 2020. And in significant ways it will be as, un...