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What’s woke about recruiting Catholic cops?
Price Service Norther Ireland has been unable to achieve parity in the numbers of Protestant and Catholic police officers.
Trump golfs. Scotland remembers. Hundreds protest.
Trump golfs. Scotland remembers. Hundreds protest.
Rose Fest Queen talks about choosing Trinity College
Come September, the woman crowned the Queen of the Portland Rose Festival in May will be an undergraduate at Trinity College in Dublin.
Ireland's Popular Poet President
The current President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is finishing his second seven-year term. Voters will choose his successor in about three months.
“Preferrably Kerrigold"
Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter from Grass Fed Cows is the second best-selling butter in America.
Katie Taylor
Katie Taylor from Bray, Co. Wicklow is class all the way. She can lay legitimate claim to being the best woman boxer alive.
Rory McIlroy has to be careful
In the classic Say Nothing mode that dominates discussion of such incidents in Ireland, Rory never talks about the ancient past
Almost mythic – The Irish Pub
Hurley’s Pub in Ballinspittle, Co. Cork, Ireland is the last pub standing in this village ten miles from Kinsale.
The Irish Goodbye - An Origin Story
Before it was called Ghosting it was The Irish Goodbye. Here’s why.
23andDoReMi
With Irish-British making up a majority of 23andMe customers, Gallagher’s Irish Celtic Corner took a look at what’s happening with all their data.
When Oregon voters tried to put private schools out of business
An epic court battle over who would teach Oregon’s children culminated in a momentous Supreme Court decision 100years ago on June 1, 1925.
Forgotten Battleground Oregon 1968: Bobby vs Gene
RFK Senior jogs with Freckles along the Oregon Coast near the Peter Iredale shipwreck. He would later strip to his underwear and go for a swim. No photos. May 1968.
SF Great Famine Memorial by SFGate
San Francisco seems to be on track to fund and build the San Francisco Irish Great Famine Memorial Plaza. The location is in the northwest corner of the City and will initially be a plaza overlooking the 17th hole (par 3) of the Lincoln Park Golf Course looking out on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Peter Yeates and Ken Larson: Bringing the Irish. By Daniel J. Curran
If Irish songs were miles, Peter Yeates and Ken Larson would have been around the globe a couple of times by now. Daniel J. Curran writes about where they’ve been all these years.
Tim Egan talks about being Irish American, Oregon, Notre Dame and the collapse of the KKK
Author Tim Egan appeared in Portland at McDaniel High School on Jan. 16. He told students there that he wrote The Immortal Irishman to remind his fellow Irish Americans that they were once unwelcome immigrants.
What you need to know re: Say Nothing and Gerard McAleese
Patrick Radden Keefe’s best seller about The Troubles has been made into a pretty compelling nine-part television series.
The transformation of Kathleen’s of Dublin
Kathleen’s of Dublin was a fixture in downtown Portland from 1993 until its transformation in 2011 to The Celtic Jewelry Studio.
See something. Say Nothing.
Dolours Price in costume as she pulls off a bank robbery with her sister Marian in the opening of Episode Two of the Hulu series Say Nothing, based in Belfast in the 197os.
IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE HALLOWEEN TO BAKE BARM BRACK
Barm Brack is an Irish dessert bread that can contain clues to your future.
SIX TAKEAWAYS FROM JFK’S OREGON CAMPAIGN
The Kennedy for President campaign came early and often to Oregon.