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THE courtroom in the newly extended Lawlor’s Hotel in Naas was the setting for an historic trial on Saturday 24 September when the Friends of John Devoy staged…

Patricia Harty remembers contributor and proponent of Irish studies Eoin McKiernan.

Former Irish President and republican revolutionary Éamon de Valera died in Dublin on this day in 1975. Dermot McEvoy takes a look at his political career and his relationship with Michael Collins.

When Chicago in the early part of the 20th century is mentioned many of us might think of the prohibition era and the rise of racketeering and crime. Especially...

On August 19, 1876, the Catalpa rescue reached a conclusion as the whaling ship docked in New York Harbor, having successfully carried six Fenian revolutionaries from a penal colony in Australia. 

Peter Quinn reviews two books on The Troubles, John Hume in America: From Derry to DC by Maurice Fitzpatrick and Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

Here Dermot McEvoy writes about the diplomat and Irish nationalist Roger Casement's unlikely friendship with John Devoy, the Irish republican rebel and journalist.

Justice Daniel Cohalan (1865-1946) was a key figure in the Irish-American nationalist movement during the Irish revolutionary period. Cohalan was b...

The book about Thomas Francis Meagher should win a Pulitzer for revitalizing the interest in the Brigadier General who could potentially be the greatest Irishman in American history. From birth to his death aged just 44 years old, Meagher was one of a kind, as “The Immortal Irishman” by Timothy Egan chronicles.

Thomas Francis Meagher's story takes place across three continents and he distinguished himself wherever he went, remaining a huge hero to the Irish in America.