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.
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.