One wonders why Ireland, a country with 4.5 million people, has produced so many of history’s greatest men – yes, mostly men – of...

Most Americans, myself included, have only the haziest knowledge of The Rising, the surprise Easter Monday attack launched by Irish...

They are playing golf at Augusta today and that is occasion enough to connect the ancient game with the season of the azaleas and a...

“The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.” – William Butler Yeats When Barack Obama stood before a...

It has been said that the 20th Century was the most violent century since man started walking upright. From the Boer War to the Balkans,...

St. Patrick’s Day has always been a bigger production in places like Boston, Chicago and Butte than in Dublin, Cork and Dingle. Good...