A hush often falls on conversation when the name, Sandy Denny, arises, usually accompanied by sighs and a gentle shaking of the head. The i...

Sometimes it seems that things are so carved in stone there’s not a prayer of changing them. Though only enacted in 2003 the Bush Tax Cuts a...

He was the most famous Irishman of his era and yet he abhorred the color green, considered it the height of bad luck, and blanched at the ma...

On one day a year, they congregated outside St. Patrick's Cathedral off Prince Street in New York City and marched in celebration. To so...

They stared down at us from the walls of musty parlors. Seven somber men, faces cased with conviction - the signatories of the 1916 Proclama...

Ireland’s people of destiny tend to come in waves usually propelled by some great event or person. Charles Stewart Parnell’s Home Rule Part...

The Republican primary debates have been an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the soul of America or, some might argue, the lack thereof. Th...