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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 12 - April 18
DOMHNAIGH -- On April 12, 1816, Charles Gavan Duffy (right) was born in County Monaghan. Self-educated as a journalist, Duffy would found the Nation, a nationalist weekly…
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More Tales From the Pew: Morning Miracle, Dad's Teachers, Watering the Liberty Tree
“Don’t wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.” -- Professor Albert EinsteinOn a clear day, you get to the 9 a.m. Mass at St. Anne’s on Dartmouth Avenue in Garden…
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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 5 - April 11
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This Week in the History of the Irish: March 29 - April 4
LUAIN -- On March 30, 1873, Richard Church (left), of County Cork, soldier, sometimes called the "liberator of Greece," died in Athens. Church was born in Cork in 1784. As a…
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A Novel of Institutional Silence - The Strand by Madi Preda
Fiction as Testimony: Writing the Stories Ireland Could Not RecordWritingHistorical records are often incomplete. In some cases, they are silent by design.Ireland’s institutional history—particularly that of the Mother and Baby Homes—exists in fragments: official documents, survivor testimonies,…
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This Week in the History of the Irish: March 22 - March 28
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This Week in the History of the Irish: March 15 - March 21
LUAIN -- On March 16, 1828, Patrick Cleburne, one of the finest generals produced by either side during America's long, bloody civil war was born at Bride Park Cottage in Ovens Township, Co.…
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This Week in the History of the Irish: March 8 - March 14
Anne BonnyDOMHNAIGH -- On March 8, 1700, or perhaps a year or two earlier, …
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This Week in the History of the Irish: March 1 - March 7
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This Week in the History of the Irish: February 22 - February 28
DOMHNAIGH -- On February 22, 1886, Conservative Party politician Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Winston Churchill, gave what many consider one of the single most…
