While economic storm clouds were joining all the other clouds that typically gather over Ireland, the government decided to increase the flow of its greatest export to its most significant market. Lacking much in the way of currently accessible oil reserves, rare earths,...

Curse you trend-setting Frank Gehry designed museum in Bilbao! Curse you gorgeous seaside and mountains setting of Cape Town with your peppy BRICSA economy! Dublin is right back at you with the Kevin Roche designed Convention Centre Dublin!...

The internet lit up with recently that the world's last typewriter factory had closed. Though obituary now appears a bit premature, it's another reminder of how much the world of the writer is changing. Most writers ditched their typewriters years ago, but when it comes time to sell...

He came, he saw, he conquered? Obama, or O'Bama, captivated Moneygall, a youthful Dublin throng and most who watched it all on television or streamed online (thank you RTE!), and it's no surprise he owned the front pages of Irish newspapers, including...

There's a bit of YouTube to the 100-year-old film clips that emerged back in 1995 from barrels in English basement. They're short, unscripted, a little rough around the edges, the stars were regular people and, in what would pass for 4G speed in 1900,...

Nike is hanging its swoosh in shame after jumping the gun -- and the shark -- by making a high-end TV commercial celebrating the English team's anticipated Grand Slam win in rugby's Six Nations Championship. On Planet Earth, however, Ireland would actually crush England 24-8 last Saturday to deny them...

From the upheaval roiling the Arab world to an admittedly less dramatic but growing role in democratic power shifts, social media is a political power player. Ireland managed to channel its considerable political tensions peacefully into the recently concluded general election, reported on, commented on, critiqued on Twitter under the...

The U.S. Census Bureau is more than a once-every-10-years operation. For instance, its American Community Survey (ACS) provides yearly data on various communities within the country. The 2009 results are out and St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner, so here's some the survey's key Irish-American numbers:

Plugged-in: Study finds Irish, ages 13-19, are teenagers... as in typical teenagers, living much of their lives online. A recent study of the media habits of Irish teens show them communicating with friends by text messaging (56 percent) and by Facebook (38 percent) and with their parents by shrugs, scowls,...

Looking back at the Irish digital media footprint in 2010, I'm stumbling across a few video nuggets gleamed from the relentless social media stream. As 2010 really put the "dismal" in the "dismal science" of economics, maybe these YouTube robots, teddy bears and cartoon characters make as much sense of...

For all the wrong reasons, Ireland is world news hotspot. Traditional media is declaiming on its dire economic situation, backed by a Greek chorus of social media chatter. A new Twitter hashtag, #positiveireland, has surfaced, attracting a digital stream of good Irish economic news to counter the prevailing...

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After reading of a Irish government response to its financial crisis that involves free cheese (though probably better cheese the US distributed in a similarly under-whelming economic response back in late 1980s and early 90s), I was relieved to surf to this slick, snazzy YouTube-hosted PowerPoint creation of...

Here at IrishMediaNation we're a little gaga (not as in Lady Gaga) over social media, digital media and digital journalism, but traditional media continues to grab much of the Celtic mindshare. As analog media has a lot of history going for it, we'll turn from the "now" to the "then"...

Dublin resident Gavin Sheridan, a Cork native, is creating a new journalism for the digital media era. On his own time and largely his own dime, Sheridan has been using Freedom of Information requests to accumulate, digitize and disseminate a database of -- until now -- hidden Irish government information....