In a recent article in the Daily Beast titled “The Left needs a Spiritual Renaissance. So Does America,” Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut and ...

A hundred years ago the economy in Belfast and its hinterland was booming led by shipbuilding and the burgeoning linen industry. With help from the...

Liam Lynch was killed by the Free State army in the Knockmealdown Mountains in Tipperary on April 10th a hundred years and one month ago. Lynch, a ...

About seven years ago, my wife and I participated in a Mass in San Antonio, Texas, where the main celebrant was a woman. We were part of about thre...

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick" From William Butler Yeats’s poem "Sailing to Byzantium." I recall well an unlikel...

The census figures for Northern Ireland released last September show Catholics, broadly understood, at 45.7%, and Protestants, or people brought up...

Some readers may remember the Stonewall riots that took place in Greenwich Village in June, 1969. The Stonewall Inn was one of a number of bars, mo...

An outsider looking at Ireland’s hundred years of independence would surely be astonished by the gradual transition from rags to riches. The countr...

In Greek mythology the River Lethe was deemed very important because those who drank from it in the underworld experienced complete forgetfulness a...

The wisdom of Oliver Goldsmith’s powerful lines in his moving 18th century poem "The Deserted Village" resonates today at a time of flagrant inequa...

Gabriel Byrne’s recent Broadway play "Walking With Ghosts" deals with the actor’s life growing up in Dublin as the eldest of six children in a work...

I came to America on a student visa in the summer of 1968. I travelled with a college friend, Ignatius Coffey, who hails from Labasheeda in County ...