Today is Saint Patrick’s Day, a time when we Irish Americans like to honor our Irish heritage and reflect on what our culture and history mean to us. To celebrate this year’s holiday, I ask your ...
This post describes how and why the political salience of Irish-American identity has declined enormously over the last century, and what can be learned from that experience. An excerpt: Today is St.
Epigenetic programming from prolonged undernutrition and terror can persist 3–4 generations, plausibly contributing to elevated cardiometabolic and mental health burdens documented among Irish cohorts ...
Galway man John Walsh of the Irish Society in Uganda has helped introduce Irish dance to children in Namuwongo, an impoverished area in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. “What great fun the kids have ...
You can't celebrate St. Patrick's Day without a bit of Irish dancing, and on Monday, you could get some lessons right from the pros. Dancers from the production of "Riverdance 30: The New Generation" ...
Her Irish eyes are smiling, but it’s her native tongue that has captured New Yorkers’ attention. Born and raised on a farm in County Cork, Ireland, Vivienne Sayers O’Callaghan moved to Ridgewood, ...
The one constant of the troubles in Ireland, Israel, and Palestine is that the more a security solution is sought, the less secure the parties in the region become. In Ireland, it was not until the ...