Halloween – Oíche Shamhna
The term “Halloween” is a short Christian way of saying, The Eve of All Hallows. The business of creatures from the nether world appearing after dark is an ancient Celtic superstition concerning the Celtic calendar, on...
In his famous "Voice From The Tomb" letter of 1873 to John Devoy in New York, a Fenian prisoner in Freemantle, Western Australia, James McNally Wilson wrote, “What a death is staring us in the face, the death of...
The Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University is an incomparable source of information and artifacts from the 1845-1850 era in Ireland, referred to incorrectly by some as “The Famine”, or “The Potato Famine”, more accurately as “The Great Hunger”,...
On Thursday, October 1, 1981, Michael Flannery was arrested outside of his home in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY. Michael Flannery looked like your typical old Irishman who would be enjoying his twilight years, but in reality, this 78 year...
The Ancient Order of Hibernians will join with Gaelic Societies, Irish community groups and parishioners in the strongly Irish Woodlawn-McLean area to host an Irish language Mass on Saturday, October 2nd, at 2:30pm. Fr. Brendan Fitzgerald, will celebrate the...
New Rochelle is going to be embracing its Irish roots throughout the weekend of October 15th to the 17th.
On October 15th the New Rochelle Aeriocht is scheduled to begin at Spectator's Bar and Grill at 7pm. The Aeriocht began...
A bipartisan group of 36 US Members of Congress have appealed to Boris Johnson over concerns about his plan for a general amnesty for crimes committed during The Troubles.
Under the Stormont House Agreement of 2014, it was agreed that...
The Rockaway Irish Festival returns for an eighth year on September 18th and 19th at Saint Camillus on Beach 100th Street, Rockaway Beach, NY.
Typically held the first weekend of June, the pandemic nixed plans for June 2020, and conditions...
Mary Harris was born on May 1, 1837 in Inchigeelagh, County Cork, to tenant farmer Richard Harris and his wife Ellen Cotter.
The Harris family had a long history of resistance to the British occupation of Ireland. Mary's paternal grandfather...
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John Devoy was born on September 3, 1842 in County Kildare. His father was active in nationalist circles in Kildare and his grandfather, on his mother’s side, was a veteran of the...
