TVF&R Pipes and Drums. The origin story.
Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue Pipes and Drums has been performing for a quarter of a century and will celebrate that milestone at Clancy’s in Sherwood on September 17.
Meet the Musk/ McGregor tag team
Elon Musk is at it again. He’s aiding Conor McGregor’s last ditch effort to get on the ballot in Ireland’s election of a new President next month.
They used to call it “De Valera’s Ireland”
The complicated legacy of Eamon de Valera will be the stuff of arguments for years to come among the Irish. It was fifty years ago that he died after a reign that lasted most of the 20th century.
The Quiet Man and Banshees of Inisherin: Lots in common. One big difference.
Martin McDonagh’s Banshees of Inisherin isn’t likely to inspire the kind of reverence and commercialism inspired by John Ford’s 1952 film The Quiet Man starring Maureen O’Hara and John Wayne. Banshees tourism is not likely to become a thing. One is a Rom Com with great passion. The other is a Black Comedy with grim passion.
For Labor Day. Digging by Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney, the greatest Irish poet since W.B. Yeats, died on August 30, 2013.
This might be his greatest poem, the first poem in his first book The Death of a Naturalist (1966).
When Irish America saw itself on Ed Sullivan
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem made their debut on the Ed Sullivan Show on March 9, 1961.
Ed Sullivan - A star of the Irish Diaspora
Twenty three years. Eleven hundred episodes. Ten thousand acts. All cleared by Ed Sullivan himself.
Shining a light on Mary Robinson
Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, now 81, is still on the front lines.
Aug. 12 1969 - Battle of the Bogside and Bernadette Devlin - The Troubles begin
“A 21-year-old Irish girl held the House of Commons spellbound today with a maiden speech of quiet eloquence and powerful emotion.” 22 April 1969 - New York Times
Bonfires on a midsummer night in NI
One bonfire. One boat filled with effigies of refugees. One Irish Tri Color. Just another July night near Dungannon.
Only in Ireland when you turn 100
The Centenarian Bounty paid to 100 year olds led to one of the largest and longest running cases of welfare fraud in the history of Ireland.
Ed Sheeran has no identity crisis
“My dad is Irish. My family is Irish. I have an Irish passport. The culture I was brought up around is Irish. The first music I learnt was Irish.”
The Obamas to be honored in Dublin
Barack and Michelle Obama will return to Ireland in September.
Fr. Jim As Gift
Father Jim Galluzzo - educator, administrator, counsellor, student, priest, principal, pastor, painter, author, adviser, advocate and activist.
Hollywood’s new king of comedy
Liam Neeson and Pam Anderson breathe new laughs into The Naked Gun.
Cliona Ward’s ICE nightmare
Cliona Ward though she had paid her debt to society. Until she was taken into custody by ICE when she returned from Ireland.
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.