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Brooklyn's Irish will this weekend remember the heroics of the "Maryland 400" at the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn. A series of commemorative events are ...

A 22-year-old Irishman is facing a charge of rape in a New York court. Damien McGuinness, who lives in Queens and works as a barman in Manhattan, w...

Seriously ill republican prisoner Brendan Lillis has been transferred from jail to a hospital in Belfast. Lillis was moved to Belfast's City Hospit...

Court proceedings against the British government over the policy of internment in the North of Ireland are set to get underway within a week. In th...

A young Catholic who was shot in the back by the British army 40 years ago in Belfast was innocent, it has been revealed. Billy McKavanagh was just...

Voting has consequences. Non-voting has even more! Some hatfuls of votes in Florida caused George W. Bush to be elected 43rd President of the Unite...

Well, just as we thought that the immigration reform effort was gone for its tea there was that meeting in Washington, D.C. last week between Obama...

Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne has confirmed he will not run as a candidate in October's presidential election, saying he does not believe he is what ...

A grandson of former Irish leader Eamon de Valera has been appointed the new deputy leader of Fianna Fáil, succeeding the late Brian Lenihan in the...

There's the Southie parade in Boston and there is, or at least was, the South Side St. Patrick's Day Parade in Chicago. The latter was put on ice a...

The Kings County, Brooklyn, Ancient Order of Hibernians elected a new leadership in a recent vote. The new board is comprised of: James Sullivan Sr...

The San Antonio-based Harp and Shamrock Society has new officers at its helm. Terence Peak was recently elected president while Kevin Dowd took up ...