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Biopic to chart Irish immigrant Mary Devine’s 1,000 mile journey from...
By: KERRY O’SHEA Legend has it that Mary Devine, an immigrant who fled from Ireland in the wake of The Great Famine, walked back to New York from Peoria with her two daughters after her husband died...
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Ireland Shirt the perfect way to celebrate your heritage (IrishCentral)
By: JANE WALSHE Fed up with drunk leprechauns, “Kiss Me I'm Irish” slogans, or other silliness when trying to buy a shirt that reflects your Irish pride? Ireland Shirt founders, Mike O'Brien and Jason...
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Galway Races festival is Ireland’s mardi gras (IrishCentral)
By: JAMES O'BRIEN Galway races start today, the greatest midsummer festival on the Irish calendar, a week long lollapalozza of fun, music, drinking, carry on and craic, a Mardi grass of Irish madness....
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Our honeymoon, cruising the Baltic sea and landing in Russia -- Not all the...
Daithi O Se and his bride RitaNot alone is this an Atlantic crossing this week folks it is also a Baltic Sea crossing After been fleeced in Amsterdam last week we headed north, up the North Sea It was...
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Bestselling author Maeve Binchy passes away after short illness, beloved by...
By: CATHY HAYES The Irish novelist Maeve Binchy, most widely known for her books “A Circle of Friends” and “Tara Road”, has passed away in Dublin following a short illness. Binchy passed away in a...
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Cork honors Mother Jones; “most dangerous woman in America” (IrishCentral)
By: LAURA BRYN SISSON Trade union officials from the US are descending on Cork today in honor of the 175th anniversary of the birth of ‘Mother Jones,’ the Cork-born workers’ rights activist, according...
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Growth in number of North American visitors to Ireland (IrishCentral)
By: KELLY DONOHUE There has been an increase of 0.7 percent of visitors to Ireland between April and June this year, second quarter travel figures released today by the Central Statistics Office (CSO)...
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How the IMF are killing the Irish patient -- more austerity cuts are the...
IMF fail to fix what ails IrelandWhen I was about ten, I was diagnosed with asthma I was given an inhaler, one of those tubes you have to blow into to measure your lung capacity, and an amount of...
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Making the transition from crib to bed - helping your babies make the big...
I'm pretty sure this picture was taken yesterday:Newborn triplets: Kev, Dec and Mac snuggle up togetherBut, it wasn't As it turns out, this picture was taken over three and a half years ago, when...
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Brush up on the Irish National Anthem for the London 2012 Olympics - VIDEO...
By: BRYAN FITZGERALD Time to brush up on your "Amhrán na bhFiann" ("The Soldier's Song"). READ MORE
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A guide to Irish racial slurs - from Cat-lick to Mackerel Snapper, the worst...
By: CATHY HAYES Sadly racial slurs against the Irish are still regularly used. Just this year the clothing store Urban Outfitters caused outrage in the Irish American community this St Patrick’s Day...
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Irreplaceable historic 300lb bell stolen from County Kerry church (IrishCentral)
By: KERRY O'SHEA A historic 300lb church bell was stolen from Ivy Leaf Arts Centre in Castleisland, County Kerry in the early hours of Thursday morning. The bell, which dates back to 1776, is feared...
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Irish Arts Center launches fall season of theatre, dance, music, film, and...
By: JANE WALSH The Irish Arts Center (IAC), in New York City, has just announced their jam packed 15-week fall schedule, running from 6th September to 17th December. The US premiere of one of the...
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Famed Irish Australian rebel Ned Kelly’s remains returned to his family...
By: KERRY O'SHEA The remains of famed folk hero and rebel Ned Kelly will be returned to his family in Ireland for a proper private burial, 132 years after his execution in Australia. READ MORE
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The top 100 Irish last names explained - find out more about your Irish clan...
By: BRYAN FITZGERALD IrishCentral has put together a list of the top 100 common Irish surnames with a little explanation of where these names come from. READ MORE
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Support rallies for Sean Quinn is everything that's wrong with Ireland --...
Sean QuinnThere are many things in Ireland that are popular that I can’t quite get The government’s insistence on selling off our natural resources to highest bidder, for example The Saw Doctors Ray...
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Chinese swimmer drug controversy recalls Michelle Smith - Irish Olympic gold...
Michelle SmithThe Olympics are in full swing these days Actually it’s very hard to get away from them if you’re not a sports fan The races are shot for TV especially swimmingControversy and suspicion...
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How the Irish defeated the best of Britain at 1908 London Olympics...
By: ROGER MCGRATH As Britain hosts the Summer Olympic Games in London, we look back on the first great modern Olympic confrontation between the United States – most of whose top athletes were Irish –...
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Is there a mythical, vanishing island off the western coast of Ireland?...
By: KERRY O'SHEA Ireland is world famous for its rich history of magical folklore. However, is there truth in some of its old mythical tales? Imagination merges with reality where the island of...
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Cork parish searches for Boston donors of a chalice in 1913 (IrishCentral)
By: LAURA BRYN SISSON A chalice used at Mass in a Co Cork parish daily for a century may finally reveal its American origins, the Boston Pilot reported Friday. READ MORE
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