Opinion

The other week, while attending a week long international conference at The Vatican on adult stem cell technology, several of the world's leading s...

Hands up those who furrowed their brows or laughed out loud when Congress established a committee to work on fiscal reform and dared call it "super...

When times were good few people raised questions and concerns about the precise nature of Irish national sovereignty. Sure, there were critics of E...

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Historians generally have a pretty high opinion of Thomas Nast, the famed 19th Century illustrator and political cartoonist. I teach college-level ...

The decision by Northern Ireland's attorney to re-open inquests into the ten people killed in the 1971 Ballymurphy shootings in Belfast is to be we...

In its earliest manifestation, Thanksgiving was less of a celebration and more a literal reflection of the very word itself. Those who first gave t...

When I first visited Derry in 2009, after a very convincing argument by Martina Anderson who was in Boston earlier that year, I found a city full o...

[caption id="attachment_67957" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Peter Cunnah."][/caption] Tens of thousands of Irish Americans gathered in ...

The recent Irish presidential election brought to an end a campaign that, after several months, had assumed a circus-like character. The procedure ...

With the relatively low key pomp and flourish that one should expect of a republic, Michael D. Higgins was sworn in as ninth president of Ireland l...

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