A community of feeling. A mythology of the instincts. As pilgrims, we bow our heads on the rocky road and we move on, carrying our humanity, and the humanity of others, from one place to the next. If ...

This month is crunch time for the British government on one of the most prominent legal cases from the Northern Ireland conflict, with London now under severe pressure to set up an inquiry into the ...

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Music and Parades Around the United States It would not be Irish Heritage Month without Irish music and parades to celebrate. For the past 34 years, Brendan Dunphy has compiled a list of festivities ...

Bass player McKagan, now 60, is, for many, the beating heart of the group. I asked him about the early Duff McKagan in 2012. Photo by Glenn Francis on Wikipedia U.K. shows that helped break the band, ...

CO-FOUNDER OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – 1961 UNITED NATIONS COMMISSIONER FOR NAMIBIA – 1973 AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – 1974 THE LEVIN PEACE PRIZE – 1977 THE AMERICAN MEDAL FOR JUSTICE – 1978 Seán ...

The survivors spent the next few days in the homes of families in Cohasset, before being transferred to the town’s poor-house, where they were all nursed back to health. Miraculously, also, ...

Guildford Pub Bombs Continue to Haunt Victims and the British Criminal Justice System 50 years later. Exactly 50 years ago, on Saturday night October 5, 1974, IRA bombs exploded in two pubs in the ...

The Connecticut River Valley saw a large number of Irish immigrants in the wake of the Great Famine, and many settled in Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, the upcoming industrial center upriver from ...

Christine Kinealy’s book, Black Abolitionists in Ireland, Volume 2 William Peter Powell is generally overlooked in the history of the Black abolition movement. Nonetheless, as a former seaman from his ...

INTRODUCTION There is no doubt that Ireland’s sons and daughters played a major role in the battle for American independence from the British Crown. As leading Revolutionary War historian Thomas ...

MET ÉIREANN has issued a series of weather warnings as Ireland prepares for an Arctic blast over the coming days. The meteorological service issued an advisory for the whole country warning that ...