Opinion

I was checking the Mets box score when the plane thundered overhead. I slammed my forehead onto the table, certain my building would be hit. Moment...

When Northern Ireland’s Prime Minister Brian Faulkner commenced internment, known as Operation Demetrius, on August 9, 1971, he said the goal was s...

I’ve always been interested in political history, particularly when an interesting or controversial character is involved. Michael Collins and Dr. ...

If Afghanistan has a troubled history then Haiti and its people well understand what that entails. And if Afghanistan is this week going through tr...

Afghans, desperate for escape, hanging from an American plane in Kabul. Desperate South Vietnamese clamoring at the gates of the U.S. embassy. Some...

Three times in the last forty years, Ireland has forced its way to the very front of the U.S. political agenda. The first time was during the bitte...

Perhaps, even with just one and without the other, 2020 was always going to be a stressful year. But we have both: Covid-19 and Election 2020, a pr...

Engel's Unwavering Support Editor: While not personally living in Rep. Eliot Engel's Bronx-Westchester 16th Congressional District I believe it imp...

EDITORIAL Four More Years Senator for the Diaspora Billy Lawless was frustrated by his inability to vote as a member of Seanad Eireann in the recen...

There was a time when the object of the exercise was to make as much of the global map as possible be England. Those who take an interest in histor...

The return of devolved government and power sharing in Northern Ireland is to be warmly welcomed. The North had been without a functioning Executiv...

Malachy McAllister has been here before. All too many times. One again the Belfast man is looking at America’s door with the big exit sign over it....