What a touching tribute that was from Meryl Streep to the late Natasha Richardson at the AMFAR annual gala in New York last week. Streep has been channeling her Irish roots, dating back to her great ...

Leading Irish revolutionary figure Theobald Wolfe Tone was born on June 20, 1763. Nearly 50 years after the patriot Wolfe Tone's death, his grave fell into disrepair and it was Thomas Davis, a ...

George Jones (1931–2013), born George Glenn Jones in Saratoga, Texas, was a towering figure in country music, often hailed as The Possum and The Rolls-Royce of Country Music. Rising from poverty, he ...

When I suggested here recently (Diary March 27th) that James Joyce wrote the comic ballad Dooleysprudence in 1916, I should have said “rewrote”. For as regular reader David Lombard has pointed out, an ...

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It’s St. Patrick’s Day! Whatever plans you’ve got on the calendar to celebrate the March holiday, whether you’re dining on corned beef and cabbage or attending a St. Paddy’s parade, be sure to wear ...