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.

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.

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.

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, now 81, is still on the front lines.

“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.”

Come September, the woman crowned the Queen of the Portland Rose Festival in May will be an undergraduate at Trinity College in Dublin.

The current President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is finishing his second seven-year term.  Voters will choose his successor in about three months.

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.

An epic court battle over who would teach Oregon’s children culminated in a momentous Supreme Court decision 100years ago on June 1, 1925.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s best seller about The Troubles has been made into a pretty compelling nine-part television series.

Kathleen’s of Dublin was a fixture in downtown Portland from 1993 until its transformation in 2011 to The Celtic Jewelry Studio.

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.

Barm Brack is an Irish dessert bread that can contain clues to your future.

The Kennedy for President campaign came early and often to Oregon.

Edna O’Brien outlived most of her critics in Ireland. The writer died at 93 on July 28, 2024.

Thousands of soldiers who sailed to America from Ireland in the 1700s joined their sons on the front lines of the Revolutionary War to free America from British rule.