Irish Dance Darlings Go to Digital Dark Side
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...
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...
Charlie Carillo | Posted 12.23.2011 | New York
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...
John Lee | Posted 12.20.2011 | World
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...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 12.13.2011 | Culture
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.
Jim Fiedler | Posted 12.31.2011 | Travel
Niall O'Dowd | Posted 12.19.2011 | World
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.
James Peron | Posted 12.05.2011 | Politics
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.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 12.03.2011 | Culture
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...
Daniel Cubias | Posted 11.01.2011 | Latino Voices
Does being an activist for your own race mean discriminating against others?
Tom Rhodes | Posted 10.19.2011 | Travel
It was worth busting up my hand to get those five minutes of material, which I called, "Chicken worth fighting for."
Trish Kinney | Posted 10.17.2011 | Women
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.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 10.09.2011 | Entertainment
About a decade ago, I accidentally launched into a sub-hobby of genealogy - one I refer to as orphan heirloom rescues. The idea is to return items to descendants of their original owners.
Brienne Walsh | Posted 10.01.2011 | Women
My sister and I sat with my grandmother while she lay dying a few months ago. Against her pale skin, freckled and dotted with beauty marks, I laid my arm.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 09.05.2011 | College
The best remedy for treating a hangover is to detox with lots of water and replenish on vitamins with clean (unprocessed) foods but every culture has its cure.
Reporters Uncensored | Posted 08.12.2011 | Media
By Maura Kelly The headlines about the Irish economy may be all doom and gloom but there is a magical side to it if you look at its exports. Namely, ...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 07.30.2011 | Politics
Ireland recently extended the warmest of welcomes to President Obama whose ancestor departed 161 years ago.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 07.09.2011 | Politics
Several years ago, when I traced Barack Obama's roots to Moneygall in County Offaly, Ireland, I never imagined that he would visit his ancestral hometown as President, but on May 23rd, that's exactly what he's going to do.
Jane Minogue | Posted 06.02.2011 | Entertainment
Dave Minogue has been out of work for two years. Jobs are scarce in Kilkenny -- and the rest of Ireland. The Central Statistics Office reports that Ir...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 06.01.2011 | Politics
On St. Patrick's Day, Barack Obama announced his intention to visit Moneygall, his ancestral hometown, during an upcoming trip to Ireland. It's believ...
John Lee | Posted 05.29.2011 | Media
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
It was just last week on St. Patrick's Day while hosting Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny at the White House that President Obama announced his u...
Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated each year on March 17th. This day marks the accepted date in 493 CE of St. Patrick's death. As St. Patrick is the f...
Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
St. Patrick's Day has rolled around again, and like previous March 17 celebrations nationwide, its LGBTQ communities are not invited.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
DUBLIN -- About half a million people have packed central Dublin for a St. Patrick's Day parade that points out Ireland's current gloomy mood – and ...
Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
My memories of St. Patrick's Day in New York do not revolve whoozily around Guinness and Jameson, although both have been on hand.
John Lee | Posted 01.23.2012 | Culture