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Share this article Taoiseach Micheál Martin has met with the US Vice President Kamala Harris as part of a series of St Patricks Day virtual events. The Taoiseach has also spoken with Leader of the House Nancy Pelosi, stressing the importance of Americas support for the Good Friday Agreement. Around now Micheál Martin is virtually exchanging a bowl of shamrock with President Joe Biden. At the annual Friends of Ireland lunch the President said he wants to build strong relations between the two ...

Greener Pastures - a poem for St Patricks Day Reporter: );  ); Happy St Patricks Day everyone! Heres a poem penned in honour of our patron saint.... Greener Pastures And the craic was something fierce Fionn MacCumhaill was there and Granuaile James Joyce and Patrick Pearse There were saints and scholars everywhere Sure the likes was never seen While God Himself, to honour the day Was decked out all in green With banners aloft the march set off Down Heaven’s Main Avenue Led by the hero of Cl...

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Vice President Kamala Harris and Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin Join CIEE in Congratulating the 2021 Frederick Douglass Global Fellows March 17, 2021 GMT The 2021 Frederick Douglass Global Fellows WASHINGTON, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- At an online St. Patrick’s Day roundtable today, Vice President Kamala Harris and Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin joined Nettie Wa...

Sowsheen is an onion white sauce with chunks of hardboiled eggs served over potatoes. Photo: Bob Luhmann The Irish and their spuds In celebration of St. Patricks Day, Bob Luhmann offers a short history of the Irish potato "famine" that was more "conscious indifference," and a Curran family recipe for sowsheen. “Po-tay-toes! Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew,” said Samwise Gamgee when asked by Gollum what taters were in Tolkien’s “The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers.” The...

Susan Blood, Banner Correspondent PROVINCETOWN  — In his proposal for “The Great Wonder,” a temporary sculpture in Ireland, artist Jay Critchley connected food security to liberty. “To me one of the most shocking images of the (COVID-19) pandemic was to see miles of cars lined up in Arkansas, or Kansas, looking for food,” Critchley said in a recent interview. “They’re sitting in their brand new SUVs but don’t have any food. It got me thinking more deeply about food and its ro...

I flew home to Dublin last September. It had been 13 months since I’d sat at my parents’ kitchen table and saw the familiar outline of the Daniel O’Connell monument from their Glasnevin home.

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Ireland’s border is a hot Brexit topic - here’s a history of the partition The division of the island is on the front burner again as many nationalists and republicans demand a border poll as allowed in the Good Friday Agreement. Gerry O’Shea Mar 02, 2021 How Irelands partition came to be and why its a hot topic in recent times. Getty Images Facebook

Money was always intended to be a servant for the people, a resource for the basic transactions of daily living. But the relationship between money and any kind of service in finance is becoming more remote.

To most decent citizens, it’s a chunk of concrete or stone outside their front door. For my late mother, it was the result of my many botched efforts to cut a slice from a fresh pan of baker’s bread.