His son Brendan was born the following year, red-haired like the Walshes, with dark eyes like the Devlins. He was working with Dinny Collins then, cutting stone. In the studio that Dinny called The ...

Maggie Timoney is the President and CEO of HEINEKEN USA, based in White Plains, New York. During her 20-plus year tenure with the HEINEKEN Group in the U.S., Netherlands, Canada, and Ireland, Maggie ...

Thomas Moore was the most popular Irish poet of his day. His famed “Irish Melodies,” with exquisite lyrics by Moore composed to traditional airs, were translated into many languages and won him ...

Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, talks to Patricia Harty. Thomas Cahill was born one of six children to a middle-class Irish family in the Bronx. He grew up in Queens, New ...

Burke (or Bourke) is one of the most popular Irish names of Norman origin. The name was introduced to Ireland through the person (and presumably extended family) of William Fitzadelm de Burgo, who ...

Seán MacBride’s career spans the history of independent Ireland. His father was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, when Irish independence was first proclaimed. As a teenager, he fought in ...

SIOBHAN FAHEY, founding member of Bananarama, is to receive The Irish Post Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. “I’m truly honoured to accept this award from my fellow Irish men and women.

180 years after his birth on June 28, 1844, the lessons of legendary Irish rebel, patriot, poet, and activist John Boyle O’Reilly deserve to be remembered and cherished. In today’s society of ...

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 ...

On October 5, 1968, the Northern Ireland civil rights movement burst onto the international scene when television pictures showed marchers being batoned off the streets of Derry by the police.

St. Ailbe, sometimes known by his anglicized name, St. Elvis, was a 6 th-century saint born in County Tipperary. The name Ailbe is derived from the old Irish words Ail (rock) and beo (alive) since as ...

And killed ’em all away. Ballad, 1800s. Irish labor became an invaluable resource for the development of America in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the Midwest and Far West, the Great Lakes ...