The In-Laws By Sinéad Moriarty Amanda, Katie and Melanie are the daughters-in-law of the domineering… From ancient kings to ...

Irish America magazine began 40 years ago. In July, 1985, Patricia and I moved to the East Coast after publishing a ...

You never knew what she would say next.” Though she stood just under 4’11”, Nell McCafferty was larger than life. She was a ...

John B Hynes, Mayor of Boston (4th from left, with hat in hand) outside O'Dea's Hotel in Loughrea with his Uncle Thomas Hynes ...

While many countries, especially those in Europe, have designated ‘national’ birds, Ireland does not. This is somewhat curious since one particular family of winged beauties, the Corvids (which ...

The McCooey surname has Armagh roots, deriving from the Gaelic name Mac Cumhaigh, meaning “son of Cú Mhaighe,” which ...

Known as The Orchard County, Armagh’s gently rolling hills are stitched with over 6,000 acres of Bramley apple trees. In autumn, the county bursts into harvest celebration, culminating in the Armagh ...

THE INDEPENDENT, left-wing candidate Catherine Connolly has won a landslide victory in Ireland’s presidential election. The Galway native, who has served as TD for Galway West since 2016 and in 2020 ...

A WOMAN who entered a home that was on fire to rescue a teenager trapped inside has been honoured for her bravery. Belfast woman Naomi Mainwaring was working from home, during Storm Eowyn, on January ...

A new Emma Donoghue book is always an event in itself – partly because you just never know what you’re going to get! But that ...

The Comstock Lode in Nevada, uncovered in 1859 by two Irish laborers, ultimately produced more than $500 million worth of silver, a large share of which went to the Irish-American “Big Four” – James ...

The Celtic cross that the Ladies’ Ancient Order of Hibernians Auxiliary dedicated to Great Hunger victims at the Cohasset Cemetery in Massachusetts. Her other books include: Black Abolitionists In ...