This Irish America

A bridge over time The photo isn’t so much a throwback as its subject. Dublin’s iconic Ha’penny Bridge is now two hundred years old. Opened in May,...

The famous waterfall in Powerscourt, County Wicklow is here in full flow with the newly leafed trees as a backdrop. Photo courtesy Powerscourt Esta...

Chloe Wheeler in possession for the Shamrocks women's team against St. Michaels on Sunday. Picture by Sarah Thorenton.

The Summit County Ohio AOH Board, along with the Mark Heffernan and St. Brendan Divisions, held a "Rebels Night" at the Heffernan Division Hall as ...

John Cardinal D’Alton, Division 3 of the Ancient Order of Hibernian in Pearl River held their annual Communion Breakfast and ceremony to honor ten ...

They weren’t the final shots in the war for Irish independence but they were the last ones unleashed in the specific context of the 1916 Rising, wh...

Inspired by his father Tom Gorman, a Port Authority officer who died on 9/11, PAPD Officer Patrick Gorman and PAPD Officer Jessica Toritto traveled...

At Seattle’s 1916 Centenary Commemoration was Cork-born artist Elaine Barry with her portraits of “Women of the Rising” done in charcoal and pen. T...

The story of the 70 million-strong Irish diaspora is told in a new interactive visitor center in Dublin. Former president Mary Robinson officially ...

Legendary entertainer Paddy Noonan is celebrating his 80th birthday and pictured is Paddy marking the occasion. Front row (l-R) Martin Flynn, Marga...

Bobby Sands died on this day in 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike in Long Kesh. And on this date in 1916 Major John MacBride, one of the Rising l...

The 100th Anniversary Easter Rising Committee unveiled The 1916 Easter Rising Monument at the Gaelic American Club in Fairfield, Connecticut. Pictu...