Opinion & Reviews

The panelists discussed multiple issues of significance to be addressed in forming a new Ireland. These issues include the recent political and economic shifts in the north in support of reunification, the contemporary role of Irish America in the reunification discussion, reconciliation among the people of the north and the inclusion of all traditions and religions, and what the “Constitutional question” refers to in the context of forming a new Ireland.

Congratulations to Sandi Riley Swift, newly elected National President of the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians (LAOH)

Then, at home, the remarkable thing happened: the world the famine made simply stopped changing. It held for 125 years. Doona, Ballycroy, and most of the west in the early 1970s were, in their daily bones, the same as 1848. The well, the turf, the fields, the lamp in the window, the cow walked to the fair. What we call old Ireland was the famine's long afterlife, and it lasted into living memory. Some who are still with us today stood inside it. PJ was born

On December 20, exactly one month after the attack, the crew and their three boats landed on Henderson Island, an uninhabited coral atoll. There they found food, birds, eggs, fish and peppergrass, but water was almost non-existent. After a week, they had j

As Mayo filmmaker and documentarian Breege Rowley prepares for the Cleveland premiere of her film All Our Yesterdays, she reflects on an extraordinary 11-year journey—one that began with a simple but unsettling realization: