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The mayor has attended flag-raising ceremonies for more than 30 countries. It’s all about the art of getting votes.

From Belgium to the Bahamas, Mayor Eric Adams has raised the flags of at least 31 countries since taking office, a civic gesture with political benefits.

The day before hosting the world's largest and oldest St Patrick's Day Parade, parade official Hilary Beirne who hails from Boyle received the inaugural A New…

Pic of Day: The Irish tricolor is raised to fly beside the Stars and Stripes at Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan today. The flag raising, organized...

There's no time like this time of year for a politician to pay attention to all things Irish. But backers of a campaign to name a lower Manhattan f...

When the lights on the Empire State Building were turned on, displaying the colours of the national flag of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), the dozens of Vincentians who had gathered to witness the spectacle spontaneously began to sing the national anthem. “Without anybody prompting anybody, they just started singing the national anthem. I saw tears coming from people’s eyes as we stared at the iconic Empire State building …

An American community association are trying to name a bridge after the slave owner.

The pleas to Governor Andrew Cuomo did not generate a positive result. But backers of a plan to name a bridge in Lower Manhattan after Irish-born R...

A New York community has launched a campaign to name a new Manhattan footbridge after the Irish-born American Revolutionary War hero Hercules Mulligan. 

Italian Sculptor Arturo Di Modica, Whose Charging Bull Sculpture Became a Symbol of an Unbridled Wall Street, Has Died at 80 The artist was working on major projects right up until his death. Charging Bull. Photo by Arthur Piccolo. Italian sculptor Arturo Di Modica died Friday at home in Vittoria, Sicily. He was 80 years old, and had been sick with intestinal cancer in recent years. If you don’t know Di Modica’s name, you almost certainly know his work—he is the man behind Charging Bu...