This Irish America

Former senator George Mitchell was presented with his grand marshal’s sash at a dinner gathering Sunday at Antun’s in Queens. Senator Mitchell, who...

There are no Irishmen running in the famed Wanamaker Mile at tomorrow’s Millrose Games at the Armory in Manhattan but in form Ciara Mageean - who r...

Today marks the 68th anniversary of the formation of the inter-party government and the election as taoiseach of John A. Costello (pictured). It wa...

These schoolkids in Donegal were ready to run in the “Fastest Feet” competition which had kids from all over Ireland competing for two places in th...

Jake Preston and Mike Frank have been almost nothing but net in their recent games for Loyola School in Manhattan. Preston (left) has scored 1,000 ...

Pictured at the recent United Irish Counties dinner in New York were (l-r) John Tully (chairman, NYC Saint Patrick's Day Parade Committee), Gael of...

A Garda directs traffic with a baton in Dublin in the 1960s. Lately a Garda in the city would be as often seen wielding an Uzi machine gun, or a se...

There’s more to an election campaign than kissing babies. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin with general election candidate Margaret Murphy O'Mahon...

The new face of policing in Ireland is no face at all. A member of the Garda Emergency Response Unit pictured in Dublin after two fatal gangland sh...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who is a former teacher, visited Mount Carmel Secondary School in Dublin today where he spoke to the 5th Year (Junior) class....

President of the AFL-CIO, Richard L. Trumka, received the “World Peace Prize” at a ceremony at the headquarters of the AFL-CIO, in Washington, D.C....

A scene soon to be repeated Five years to the day that this photo was taken at the Dublin Central constituency vote count, that being Feb. 26, 2011...