Mary McAleese (L), the eighth President of Ireland (1997 - 2011) came to Portland seventeen years ago to dedicate the Celtic Cross at the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial. Find out more about who she is and what she’s doing today.

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).

“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.”