Pyramids, Eiffel Tower, And Outer Space Go Green For St. Patrick's Day
What next? On St. Patrick’s Day, the Irish succeeded in casting green spotlights on the Pyramids, Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Rio de Janiero’s massive Christ the Redeemer statue, Dubai’s Burj...
View ArticleFrom Coffin Ships To Triumph Abroad, Museums Tell Of Ireland's Haunting Diaspora
The mass immigration of the Irish during the great Famine and the decades that followed was a Diaspora of staggering proportions. In the second half of the nineteenth century, almost every family...
View ArticleEat Your Heart Out At Ireland's Food Festivals: 3 Million Oysters, The Craic...
As the weather warms, Ireland comes alive with festivals of many kinds-- step dancing to drama to rock music and hill walking. There’s an Irish festival for every taste, sometimes a half dozen scatted...
View ArticleO'Bama's Got His, Clinton And Tom Cruise Too -- Official Irish Heritage...
What does Barrack Obama have in common with England’s Sebastian Coe and Canada’s former premier Jean Charest, and for that matter New York’s former police commissioner Ray Kelly and Tom Cruise? Answer:...
View ArticleWhat To Give The Man Who Has Everything? Why, A Cask Of Irish Whiskey To Be...
Forget the pork belly, canola, and coffee futures markets. The more exciting play this month is Irish whiskey. A start-up enterprise named Dingle Distillery is seeking cash on the barrelhead from...
View ArticleIreland's Mischievous, Marvelous, Mad Milliner Philip Treacy Says The...
Philip Treacy, milliner to royalty and darling of divas, has an imagination as riotous as the Irish mind can get. Raised with eight siblings in rural County Galway, he has conquered the fashion world...
View ArticleWant To Know Your Irish Past? Waterford Sculptor Seamus Kelly Flies Back...
Take 7,000 year-old wood, 13,000 year old bones, add ancient silver and gold and stop modern time, and you have the materials with which Waterford artist Seamus Kelly creates totems that call up the...
View ArticleRedhead Madness, March Of 1000 Beards, Insomniac Golf -- Summer In Ireland Is...
The festival season in Ireland is about to take some wonderfully weird turns -- including celebrations of redheads and insomniacs on the links – thanks in part to a governmental initiative called The...
View ArticleWhat Can Go Wrong Next? Global Arrows Pointing At The Apple Atop Ireland's Head
The uproar over Apple, Inc.’s avoidance of billions in U.S. taxes through an ingenious offshore shell game has created a public relations nightmare for the Republic of Ireland, home to more than a...
View ArticleStop Your Job. Think Anew.
What can you say of a sixty-five year-old man who paints with his fingers in the dark on a wild rain and vision swept Irish peninsula after being g roustabout and then a family man and global deal...
View ArticleWhat Will They Think Of Next? 'Paddywagon Tours' Goes For Global Day Trip...
Faced with a busted boom and a persistent 15 percent unemployment rate, the Irish have been upending every conceivable stone in an attempt to reignite this island world. There’s the Connect Ireland...
View ArticleIreland Moves Toward Wrapping Iconic Cigar Boxes In Plain Paper And Gruesome...
Ireland, the first country in the world to ban smoking in all its bars and restaurants in 2004, is now moving ahead with legislation to require plain packages –adorned with only government dictated...
View ArticleWho's Irish? New Report Says Jackie O Was Jackie O' And Only A Few Shades...
This weekend Ireland is abuzz with remembrances of John F. Kennedy as thousands gather around his ancestral village of New Ross, County Wexford to mark the 50th anniversary of the late American...
View ArticleNew Tape Recordings Reveal Brazen Chicanery At Irish Bank That Soaked Its...
Shocking tape recordings released this week display the heads of Anglo Irish Bank, the private bank favored by the wealthiest speculators and property developers behind the Irish boom, literally...
View ArticleWant To See A Ghost Tonight? Hunting Them Is One Of Ireland's Weirder Treats
Day after day Ireland has been full of sun for the last month, but still every night as it sets an important activity resumes across the land – ghost hunting. The adventurous tourist who wants to take...
View ArticleEditor's Note And Correction
On July 23, an article appeared on Forbes.com about American UN Ambassador nominee Samantha Power that contained a serious error concerning the President of Ireland, Mr. Michael D. Higgins. Both Forbes...
View ArticleThe Law Closes In On The Richest Man In Ireland--The Billionaire Mighty Quinn
The richest man in Ireland, billionaire Sean Quinn, could be facing jail in November.
View ArticleOil Riches In Ireland Could Be Vast
Black gold in Ireland. Billions or euros off offshore oil? Could be true, Needed so!
View ArticleIreland's Richest Man In Jail: The Collapse Of Celtic Dreams Continues
Ireland's richest man sent to jail.
View Article70 Million Irish Please Come Home (Briefly): But Don't Mind Our In-Fighting
The Gathering 2013 is an attempt to repaint the world green in a year-long St. Patrick's Day celebration and bring home lots of 70 million Irish descendants scattered far to the Old Sod. But...
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