Opinion

[caption id="attachment_66927" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The James Connolly statue in Dublin."][/caption] The year 1981 was a time o...

My students were from South America, China, Africa and Eastern Europe. English was a second language for them. On that terrible Tuesday, Sept. 11, ...

History nerds like myself spend a lot of time combing through boring letters and government documents. It may not be everybody's idea of entertainm...

The tenth anniversary of September 11 was duly marked with solemnity and grace, an amazing grace, one that did honor to all who perished that day a...

President Obama finally took aim at the heart of the economic malaise last week when he addressed a joint session of Congress on the matter of jobs...

By Peter McDermott On Aug. 2, 1980, a bomb exploded in the air-conditioned waiting area at Bologna's Central Station. Eighty-five people were kille...

[caption id="attachment_66542" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Saul Alinsky, left, with Nicholas von Hoffman."][/caption] By Peter McDermo...

By Matthew Hennessey With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 rapidly approaching, the World Trade Center site will soon be opening to the public as a mem...

After a week in which people living along the U.S. eastern seaboard experienced both an earthquake and a hurricane it was tempting for some to star...

In responding to the Irish Echo editorial, " The Last Horseman" on the death of former New York governor Hugh Carey I have to bear in mind the maxi...

Reading President Richard M. Nixon's White House papers and studying his political career, was not something I thought I would be doing on August 1...

And so, the last of the Four Horsemen is gone. A generation ago, Hugh Leo Carey was one of four prominent Irish-American politicians who took up th...