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.

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).

The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem made their debut on the Ed Sullivan Show on March 9, 1961.

Twenty three years. Eleven hundred episodes. Ten thousand acts. All cleared by Ed Sullivan himself.

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

Braveheart still beats with bad history 30 years later.

“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

One bonfire. One boat filled with effigies of refugees. One Irish Tri Color. Just another July night near Dungannon.

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.

“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.”

Barack and Michelle Obama will return to Ireland in September.

Father Jim Galluzzo - educator, administrator, counsellor, student, priest, principal, pastor, painter, author, adviser, advocate and activist.  

Liam Neeson and Pam Anderson breathe new laughs into The Naked Gun.

Cliona Ward though she had paid her debt to society. Until she was taken into custody by ICE when she returned from Ireland.

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.

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.

Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter from Grass Fed Cows is the second best-selling butter in America.

Katie Taylor from Bray, Co. Wicklow is class all the way. She can lay legitimate claim to being the best woman boxer alive.