Since the inception of the Fox News Channel in 1996, Bill O’Reilly has served as the anchor for “The O’Reilly Factor,” the most watched cable news program on the air. Born in New York in 1949, Bill ...

The O’Briens are one of the great Gaelic families of Ireland, and were the rulers of the ancient kingdom of Thomond, which takes in much of the modern county Clare and also the adjacent parts of ...

When we decided to focus on the Irish American contribution to education in this issue we found we needed a wide lens indeed. On every level, from pre-school to the universities, Irish Americans have ...

A YOUNG man has died following an incident at a pub in Co. Cork. Gardaí and emergency services responded to the incident in Riverstick shortly after 9pm on Saturday. “An adult male, aged in his 20s, ...

When Shivaun O’Casey first met Irish-born Nobel Literature Prize winner Samuel Beckett, she was a shy young girl of 16 studying acting in London. In the 32 years that have followed that meeting, she ...

Cohan’s father, Jerry Cohan, was widely known as one of the best traditional Irish dancers in all of New England. According to the Cohan biographer, John McCabe, Jerry Cohan’s specialty was working ...

This month we are featuring the families of our new Taoiseach [Prime Minister] Albert Reynolds, and our previous Taoiseach Charles Haughey. Both names are Gaelic in origin and both exemplify the ...

Thomas Moore was the most popular Irish poet of his day. His famed “Irish Melodies,” with exquisite lyrics by Moore composed to traditional airs, were translated into many languages and won him ...

Nellie Bly’s biographer, Brooke Kroeger, captured the essence of his admirable subject when he wrote: “In the 1880s, she pioneered the development of ‘detective’ or ‘stunt’ journalism, the ...

After surviving on a diet of insects, grass and rainwater for six days behind hostile enemy lines after his F-16 Fighter had been shot down in Bosnian Serb territory, Captain Scott O’Grady made radio ...

Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, talks to Patricia Harty. Thomas Cahill was born one of six children to a middle-class Irish family in the Bronx. He grew up in Queens, New ...

The O’Briens are one of the great Gaelic families of Ireland, and were the rulers of the ancient kingdom of Thomond, which takes in much of the modern county Clare and also the adjacent parts of ...