The scene in the Irish Bronx between the 1970’s and the 1990’s was so wild and in-your-face, I figured it would last forever. It never occu...

Canal Street in Lower Manhattan runs just over a mile from East Broadway to West Street. It’s big, broad and bustling and...

Who was the most successful Irish-American?   In my book, she was a fugitive, a prisoner, vivacious, beloved, despised, and competitive; she...

  Like many people from Ireland I support an English football team. As I brace myself for sneers of contempt curried by hollow words of patr...

Fordham University Press will publish Rockin' The Bronx on March 3rd, 2025 The novel, Rockin’ The Bronx, came directly from the Black 47...

The Irish Arts Center houses one of the best bars and lobbies in New York City. A saloon of sorts, it’s all about conversation. There are no...

  So here we go again. Round 2 with President Trump.   I have little doubt that he is the most influential American politician of the last 8...