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Julie Feeney a Weird and Wonderful Irish Import

John Lee | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Off Broadway, Irish Arts, Irish Music, Lady GaGa, Julie Feeney, New York City, New York Events, Irish, Video, Culture News
John Lee

With vibrant traditional styles embraced worldwide, Irish music is a strong brand. Extending that brand in weird and wonderful ways is Julie Feeney, an innovative singer, songwriter, poet and performer who is halfway through a ten-night New York stand.

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The Irish Irish vs. The Irish Americans... in San Francisco

Terence Clarke | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Fiction, San Francisco, Books, Ireland, Literature, Irish, Iridhamericans, Culture News
Terence Clarke

As any real Irishman who has met one of his American counterparts will tell you, the Americans are different. The American Irish seldom use their accent to elaborate a story or to make it pleasing.

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Anti-Catholicism On The 'Mean Streets' Of New York

Kerry Weber | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, Ireland, Immigration, Know Nothings, Catholicism, Irish, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Catholic New York, Video, Religion News
Kerry Weber

Long before Chinatown, Little Italy, and SoHo became some of New York City's most popular neighborhoods, at the heart of them all sat St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.

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Sober St. Patrick's: Drunken Past, Sparkling Future

Gerit Quealy | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Aa, Malachy McCourt, St. Patrick?S Day, Irish-Americans, Frank Mccourt, Irish, Alcohol, Culture News
Gerit Quealy

I had to ask. How did the Irish get the reputation for being such heavy drinkers? Even my own father is derisive about it, and he's where my Irish heritage comes from. Malachy McCourt has a theory. (I knew he would.)

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Which Post 50s Celebrities Have Irish Roots?

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Post50 Celebrities, St. Patrick's Day, Post 50 Celebrities, Irish Celebrities, Irish American, Ireland, Boomers, Irish, Irish American Celebrities, Fifty News

Have you ever wondered which of your favorite celebrities have a wee bit (or even a whole lot) of Irish in them? Actors Liam Neeson and Kenneth Bra...

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7 Health Lessons From The Irish

The Huffington Post | Laura Schocker | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Potatoes Nutrition, Potatoes, St. Patrick's Day, Irish Health, Ireland, Ireland Health, Irish, Irish Luck, Slidepollajax, Healthy Living News

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, a holiday that's earned itself an unhealthy rap by encouraging binge drinking and over-eating. But at the root of the M...

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Sister Mary's Soda Bread

Laura Kumin | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Holidays, Holiday Food, Ethnic Food, Recipes, Bread, Easy Recipes, Tradition, Saint Patrick's Day, Food, Family Recipes, Irish, Soda Bread, KitchenDaily News
Laura Kumin

I'm no fan of green cupcakes or green beer. And the only green eggs I like are the Dr. Seuss kind -- in a book. I prefer my corned beef without cabbage. 

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It's Easy Being Green! Food For St. Patty's

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Quarter-Life Cooking, St. Patricks Day, Home Cooking, Theme Parties, Recipes, St. Paddy's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Slidepollajax, Green, Food, Irish, KitchenDaily News
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

There are a lot of ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and drinking yourself under the table is only one of them.

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PHOTOS: Celebrating St. Paddy's Day Close To Home

Travelzoo | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: St Patricks Day, St. Patrick's Day, Irish Travel, Holiday Travel, Irish, Holidays, St Pattys Day, St. Patricks, Slidepollajax, Travel News
Travelzoo

If a trip to Ireland is not on the agenda this year, it's still possible to get a taste of the Emerald Isle here in the States.

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The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools

Bill Bigelow | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Irish Culture, Skibbereen, Irish History, St. Patrick's Day, Irish-Famine, Textbooks, Great Famine, Potato Famine, Irish, Education News
Bill Bigelow

First, does anyone really think that students will remember anything from the books' dull and lifeless paragraphs? Today's textbooks contain no stories of actual people. We meet no one, learn nothing of anyone's life, encounter no injustice, no resistance. This is a curriculum bound for boredom.

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Unexpected Irish

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Pink, David Boreanaz, St. Patrick's Day, Heritage, Katy Perry, Family Tree, Ireland, Beyonce, Barry Manilow, Barack Obama, Celebrities, Irish, Celebrity News
Megan Smolenyak

It's been said that on St. Patrick's Day we're all a wee bit Irish, but here are a few celebrities who truly are, though they probably wouldn't be the first you'd guess.

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PHOTOS: Urban Outfitters Sells Disputed St. Patrick's Day Clothing

The Huffington Post | Michelle Manetti | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Video, Urban Outfitters St. Patrick's Day Clothing, Urban Outfitters Derogatory St. Patricks Day Clothing Derogatory, Old Navy Irish Clothes, Irish Americans, St Patricks Day, Racism, Offensive Clothing, Poll, Urban Outfitters, Irish, Urban Outfitters St. Patrick's Day Clothes, Derogatory Clothing, Style News

Urban Outfitters has done it again: offended a cultural group through derogatory clothing. The fashion store recently started selling clothing targ...

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Asians and Latinos Question Scott Brown's Irish Immigration Bill

Erwin de Leon | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Latinos, Asian Americans, Scott Brown, Mike Honda, Irish, Chuck Grassley, Massachusetts Senate Race, Irish Immigration, Scott Brown Immigration Bill, Massachusetts Immigration Bill, Scott Brown Immigration, Massachusetts Irish Immigrants, Politics News
Erwin de Leon

The measure, dubbed the Irish immigration bill, would qualify Ireland for the E-3 visa program increasing the number of work visas allocated to the Irish by 10,500 per year. But why should the Irish get a special bill?

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Scott Brown's Pork Barrel Visa

Dinkar Jain | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Scott Brown, Immigration Reform, HR 3012, E-3 Visas, H1B Visa, Immigration, High-Skill, Massachusetts, Irish, Massachusetts Senate Race, Fairness, e3, Politics News
Dinkar Jain

Mr. Brown won his Massachusetts election on merit, not unfair quotas. In that spirit, he should let foreigners come to the US on their merit, not unfair quotas. He should also try and win his upcoming election on merit, not unfair quotas.

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Irish Dance Darlings Go to Digital Dark Side

John Lee | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Culture Ireland, Digital Media, Riverdance, Irish Dancing, Viral Videos, Hand-Dancing, Youtube, Irish, Viral, Video, Culture News
John Lee

Irish Step Dancers/Hand Dancers Suzanne Cleary and Peter Harding are back and they are BAD in a new video going viral. The ex-Riverdance duo was la...

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Silent Night, Deductible Night

Charlie Carillo | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Charity, Minimum Wage, Christmas Carols, Mother, Christmas, Father, Italian, Silent Night, Irish, Douglaston, New York News
Charlie Carillo

It was Christmas Eve, and to mark the anniversary of this sacred night before our savior's birth I was upstairs with my father, helping him do a touch...

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Rock the Vote for Irish EU Logo

John Lee | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Logo, European Union, Ireland, Irish, Eu, Irish Design, Graphic Design, Video, World News
John Lee

Logos were digital before there was digital--quick hits, with immediate impact and lots of message delivered in a tight, clean package. A powerful v...

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Men of the USS Monitor: County Galway, Ireland is Home to Another American Hero

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Dna, History, Military, Civil War Sesquicentennial, Civil War, Galway, Forensics, Ireland, Genetics, Genealogy, Navy, Irish, USS Monitor, Culture News
Megan Smolenyak

Thomas Joice (who sometimes went by Joyce) was one of the 16 men who went down with the USS Monitor on Dec. 31, 1862. Some years ago, I researched him for a documentary and have continued to look into his past from time to time.

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Enchanted Ireland (PHOTOS)

Jim Fiedler | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Photography, Slideadbigshot, Ireland, European Union, Travel, Irish, Castles, Emerald-Isle, Exposure, Travel News
Jim Fiedler

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The Irish Presidential Race Becomes a Gripping Soap Opera

Niall O'Dowd | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Polls, Soap Opera, Presidency, Martin McGuinness, Ira, Irish, Irish Politics, World News
Niall O'Dowd

The strangest Irish presidential election ever just got a whole Twilight Zone twist when the husband of Dana, alias Rosemary Scallon, a former gospel singer once based in America, claimed she had been the target of an assassination attempt.

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Know Nothings and Immigrants: Some Things Never Change

James Peron | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Nativism, Immigrants, Immigration, Irish, Bigotry, Xenophobia, Politics News
James Peron

The complaints that were made about Irish immigrants are pretty similar to those we hear today about Mexican immigrants. The xenophobes insisted the Irish were lazy, prone to crime, drank too much, and were stealing jobs from good white Americans.

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Seeds of a Trans-Atlantic Reunion

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Google, Census, Newspapers, Quebec, Obituaries, Family Tree, Ireland, Genealogy, United States, Irish, Family History, Canada, Barack Obama, Ellis Island, Culture News
Megan Smolenyak

As a genealogist, I'm on the receiving end of lots of inquiries from journalists. Usually they're wondering about the roots of this or that famous pe...

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Can Ethnic Pride Translate into Hatred?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Latinos, Latino, Ethnicity, Hispanic, St. Patrick?S Day, Hispanics, Prejudice, Race, Racial Warfare, German, Appalachia, Education, Racism, Ethnic Pride, Discrimination, Tribalism, Irish, Racial Bigotry, Bigotry, Advocacy, Latino Voices News
Daniel Cubias

Does being an activist for your own race mean discriminating against others?

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A Tragedy, A Miracle And A Brawl...Welcome to Ireland

Tom Rhodes | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: UK Travel, Miracles, Ireland. Ireland Travel, Irish, Travel Blogs, Tom Rhodes, Comedy, Drinking, Travel News
Tom Rhodes

It was worth busting up my hand to get those five minutes of material, which I called, "Chicken worth fighting for."

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A Non-Feminist Role Model

Trish Kinney | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Gloria Steinem, Iowa Upbringing, Dutch, Cancer, Stay at Home Dads, Non-Feminism, Feminism, Family Role Models, Irish, Women News
Trish Kinney

We are the last generation to be raised primarily by the traditional family model. And I, for one, am grateful and proud to be a member of that generation.

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