Part 2 In my first article about New Orleans (see here), I traced the city’s long Irish history until the start of the Civil War. New Orleans fell ...

Researching the Irish in the New Orleans, I discovered their huge role in the city’s history and culture, a role too large for one article — and th...

A beloved Irish American, Archbishop Fulton Sheen of Peoria, Illinois, has been beatified, putting him on the path to canonization. When Bishop Lou...

The street in front of the New York Irish Center in Long Island City is called Jackson Avenue, but it won’t be for long. On this Saturday, Feb. 7, ...

I am visiting the beautiful central American country of Guatemala, where one of the most controversial figures in Latin American history is honored...

Millions of American kids grow up dreaming of scoring the winning points in an NFL football game in front of 70,000 screaming fans. You might suppo...

With the American seizure of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro over the recent weekend the world has been focusing on Caracas, the Venezuelan ca...

Msgr. James Kelly, the 87-year-old pastor emeritus of St. Brigid’s Parish in Bushwick, Brooklyn, got some long overdue attention in 2025. In May, S...

Not only New Yorkers, but people around the world are buzzing about New York’s mayoral elect, 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani, who will become the secon...

I just visited the stunning new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. As a writer I am not supposed to be at a loss for words, but this amazing bu...

Ironically, the artist who best captured the subtle and ephemeral beauty of the West of Ireland was an outsider. Belfast-born Paul Henry painted ca...

Our New York Irish history can often lie hiding in plain sight, especially in Astoria, Queens. If you peer between the cracks of a chain link fence...