My City Irish Hub

For the first time ever—after local elections in the United Kingdom in May 2026—the devolved national parliaments in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales now all have pro-independence parties as their largest legislative constituent: the Scottish National Party in the Scottish Parliament, Sinn Féin in Stormont in Northern Ireland, and Plaid Cymru in the Welsh Senedd. With independence and re-unification desires growing across the Irish and British islands,

Old family records can tell us where our ancestors lived, when they married and where they were buried. They may offer dates, addresses and names written in fading ink. What they cannot always tell us is what those people feared, whom they loved or how it felt to leave Ireland and begin again in Cleveland.Local author Ashley Herzog has spent much of the past decade filling in those spaces. Her newest historical novel

Dublin, 1983, a skinny little ginger haired boy is standing in front of an open guitar case singing his heart out. This wasn’t the Ireland you know today. It was somehow rougher and gentler at the same time, small and intimate but with some really rough characters.My memory is of a very gray place, chain link fences and snarling dogs. Then you would happen on an old dote selling apples. Full of contradiction. At least this little thirteen-year-old was on Grafton Street, upmarket, close to the Shelbourne and Stephen’s Green. That little ginger was Glen Hansard.

Columbus Offers New Introductory Speak Irish Sessions