Massive Crowds at National Hunger Strike Commemoration in Belfast
Many thousands of people attend the  National Hunger Strike commemoration in Belfast where Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald gave an inspiring and powerful...
A Vital Piece of the Puzzle
A Letter from Americaa Chara,Last week Ciarán answered a few questions from readers regarding Irish identity and Irish Unity. We received great feedback -...
September Issue Has Arrived; the Irishtown Bend Project, and Timothy Callahan’s Painting are Spectacular
September Issue Has Arrived!Featuring: Cleveland Artist Timothy Callahan's fantastic work of Irishtown Bend2025 to Date:
The Summer is Setting, But Irishtown Bend Is Shining, Again
Our cover is the Irishtown Bend painting by Cleveland artist Timothy Callahan. Check out the story behind it all, in this month’s Cleveland Irish column. Tom Kaschalk’s fantastic new book, Cleveland’s Neighborhood Taverns, and Brian Conway’s Wallace Avenue new CD are reviewed inside as well. Dog Day Lessons, the failure of the Legacy Act, Speaking Irish, and Talking Bees share the Irish language and the Irish language at the University of Galway, Commodore John Barry, a fundraiser or two, a food recipe or two and of course, a wonderful list of What’s the Craic? events this month that can
Identity in a New and United Ireland
Last week, I answered some common questions on the Good Friday Agreement, Irish Unity, and Unity Referendums. The feedback has been very positive. A number of readers raised the issue of the future of those with the British Unionist tradition in a united Ireland.It should be noted that the founders of modern Irish Republicanism came from a Protestant Anglo-Irish background. The Society of United Irishmen pledged to “unite Protestant, Catholic, and Dissenter” and to break the link with Britain.The Proclamation of the Irish Republic of 1916 promises, “The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien Government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past.To be an Irish Republican is to be anti-sectarian.