After she sold her home in Ireland, she never bought another one there, and in 1964, she bought what friends described as an ...

Organized labor has been declining steadily for the past two dedicates. Can John J. Sweeney, elected last year as the president of the AFL-CIO, reverse the trend? EIGHT stories above the ground in ...

One warm summer evening last year, I picked up a first edition of The Country Girl from the bookshelf in a house where I was staying and I did not leave my place by the window until I had read it from ...

The President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins paid tribute to the First Nations of Canada and Native Americans for their contributions to Irish Famine relief in 1847 at the National Famine Commemoration ...

They call her the Princess of Daytime talk shows. Our own Rosie O’Donnell who, at just 35 years old, seems to have the world at her feet. In 1989 when I.A. first interviewed Rosie she was already a ...

THE sod was turned this week on a much-anticipated social housing project in Dublin. Construction work has officially begun on Blackbird Park in Cabra, north Dublin for the Focus Housing Association ...

CARDINAL Timothy Michael Dolan, Archbishop of New York, shared a video this month in which he appears with Sister Mary Bosco in Tullamore, Co. Offaly. The 100-year-old Irish nun, a Sister of Mercy, ...

The Irish in Canada have won a major victory over the Canadian Government on how the national historic site at Grosse Ile should be developed. The small island in the St. Lawrence River, 48 kilometers ...

ONE of the two teenagers who died after getting into difficulty in the sea in Co. Donegal last week has been described as ‘a true ambassador of hope’. Emmanuel Familola, 16, died in the tragedy in ...

A WOMAN in her 70s has died following a collision involving a bicycle and a tractor in Co. Clare. The incident occurred at around 12.45pm on Saturday on the L3180 at Toonagh, Tulla. Gardaí have now ...

POLICE have named two men who died in separate road traffic collisions on Friday as Paddy McDonald and Philip Taylor. Mr McDonald, 62, was riding a bicycle when it was involved in a collision with a ...

GARDA investigating the disappearance and murder of Fiona Pender have revealed a new search at a… News from Ireland and happenings in Irish America..