Opinion

Mr. Modest didn't come all the way from County Down to break up fights on the Lower East Side. He came to play soccer on a college scholarship. Act...

A few weeks ago, the federally run National Assessment of Educational Progress issued its latest "report card" on civics education in the United St...

Radical elements in Ireland must be envying the riotous opposition in the streets of Athens to the Greek government's "capitulation" to the Europea...

He took his time, but he sure chose his moment. Darren Clarke capped a professional golfing career of more than twenty years in the most majestic w...

In some of the stories about his discovery and arrest, mobster Whitey Bulger was described as "legendary" and "colorful." One newspaper described B...

In the Charlie Brown cartoons, Lucy offers psychiatric help for five cents. It's the kind of bargain offer that the Irish government might want to ...

Well, that’s it for the time being folks. Or at least it will be once the space shuttle Atlantis touches down after its mission to the Internationa...

On a bright June day in 1968, millions of viewers tuned in to watch the television coverage of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train making the...

For decades the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America has petitioned United States Navy historians andmany others in the government to honor a tru...

For many years now the primary focus of the immigration debate in this country has been on comprehensive reform, the presence of millions of illega...

At the time of writing the last flight of a space shuttle is still a go. On July 8th the shuttle Atlantis will blast into the sky on a 12-day missi...

The dollar works throughout the United States because, despite regional traits and sometimes clear differences, the country is a nation made up of ...