The Hibernian Independent
Read The Hibernian Independent to keep up with popular topics and current controversies in Portland, Ireland and Irish America.
Hundreds hear how the Klan targeted Oregon Catholics
At Powell’s Books on Burnside last night (Aug. 26), the HOT TOPIC was more than a hundred years old. More than 250 people, intrigued by how a domestic terrorist organization once dominated politics in Oregon, especially in Portland, showed up to hear Steve Law, author of Peddlers of Hate: How the Ku Klux Klan Seized Power in 1920’s Oregon.
From James Joyce to Maeve Binchy
Believe it or not, there is a theater production based on the novel Ulysses FOR KIDS eight and older. It’s called You’ll See…Read about it in this week’s PDX Hibernian Independent.
Rory McIlroy - A new book and a shot at back-to back Masters titles
The 85th anniversary of the Bombing of Belfast by Germany in World War Two is upon us. How an Irish songstress saved many lives. Can Rory McElroy repeat at Augusta? Only thee other golfers have won back-to-back Masters. PLUS other stories in the latest PDX Hibernian Independent.
Ireland. Oregon. Easter Lillies.
Easter Season brings reminders of the 1916 Easter Monday Rising in Ireland. Find out how the Easter Lily from Oregon became a symbol of Republicanism after 1916. Included in the latest edition of the PDX Hibernian Independent: Rita O’Hare. Outside Mullingar. Ireland’s soccer women step up.
What’s being said about Say Nothing
New Hulu adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Say Nothing”, David O’Longaigh presenting on Irish folk and Celtic musical traditions, Corrib Theatre Waiting for Godot, the cross at Clonmacnoise and more!