The most visible form of traveller life in major Irish cities is street begging by children. To most people this is an ...

The death of Justice William Brennan in July, after a long illness, was mourned by President Clinton, other dignitaries, ...

Born in Dublin in 1930, Johnston moved to the northern city of Derry during the 1970s. Her work was deeply involved with the ...

March 17th also celebrates Evacuation Day which celebrates the evacuation of British troops from Boston on March 17, 1776 so ...

GARDAÍ are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of woman missing from Co. Limerick. Shauna O’Neill, 32, was reported missing in Limerick city on Monday, February 24. She was last ...

In 1998, Alice McDermott’s fourth novel, Charming Billy, captured the National Book Award. Few were surprised. McDermott had previously been nominated for two Pulitzers and another N.B.A. But ...

Born in Wilmette, Illinois on September B21, 1950, Bill Murray grew up, one of nine children, in an Irish Catholic family (one sister is a Carmelite nun). He left home in the early ’70s to join ...

Frank McCourt went from retired New York City high school in a matter of months with the publication of Angela’s Ashes, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Frank managed to save the fare for a ...

THIS month over 5,000 people received Irish Citizenship at the Convention Centre, Dublin. Applicants from over 130 countries made a declaration of fidelity and loyalty to the State and became Irish ...

John Cardinal O’Connor was installed as Archbishop of New York in March, 1984, and elevated to Cardinal in May, 1985. He was born, the fourth of five children, in a row house in a blue-collar ...