Opinion

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[caption id="attachment_68854" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Enda Kenny."][/caption] On December 6, 1921 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was sign...

Immigration reform has been on the minds of Irish America for many years and the result has been mostly a sense of frustration that becomes especia...

Our first Christmas after we were married I was introduced to a Christmas fruitcake by my Irish-born wife. Thus began a 38-year tradition which eve...

Every nation has its habits, preferences, tastes. I'm pretty Catholic in my tastes having grown up in one country, Ireland, moved to another, Ameri...

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[caption id="attachment_68752" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Bill O'Reilly"][/caption] I’ve never really covered a war – unless you count...

It was a challenging year on both sides of the Atlantic but as 2011 nears its end there is cause for at least a little optimism on this side, and r...

I recently attended an international conference at the Vatican on stem cell research. Most of us attending the first "International Conference on A...

When Congress set to changing the nature and practice of U.S. immigration laws back in the mid-1960s, the intention was to diversify the annual inf...

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[caption id="attachment_68327" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Speaker Quinn."][/caption] Christine Quinn is the Speaker of the City Counc...