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The town of Otsego, New York, six miles from the  Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in Upstate New York, is the preferred destination for the future home of the  American Irish Historical Society, according to sources. 

The American Irish Historical Society is planning to move upstate to Cooperstown, New York. The move has triggered the resignations of board members. Michael D. Higgins, Jr, son of the President of Ireland, has been elected unopposed as the new President-General.

Weather forecasts predict a few more doses of rain and a wintry mix to wash over the Northeast during the last days of 2021, although a weather system that began before Christmas is in no rush to end.

Looking for holiday travel trouble spots; is the defeat of Build Back Better REALLY the "end of democracy?"; President Biden will address the nation on COVID-19 today; the Iowa political environment currently favors Republicans. Click to hear hour one to Need To Know With Jeff Angelo for 12/21/21.

Will your dreams for a "White Christmas" in Chicago come true this year?

Despite the critical importance of a strong and independent judiciary, it’s too often that court reform is ignored by public officials and civic leaders. Earlier this week – at the...

What an enlightening, honest commentary on the hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church. It’s misogyny lead me to leave the Catholic Church in the late 70’s. I continue to try to reconcile my faith with the disillusionment of organized religion. Recently, I have come to realize the profound support the Catholic Church offered my parents as first and second generation Irish Catholic immigrants. In fact, I have this Irish American Magazine to thank for that realization. Though the Cath...

The earlier decades of the 20th century provide the settings for two new works of Irish-American fiction.Dream When You’re Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg explores life on the homefront during World War II, as seen through the eyes of the three Irish-American Heaney sisters from Chicago.Kitty, Louise, and Tish each have differing conflicts, and Berg masterfully divides time between each character.Kitty, for example, does not merely sit home and weep about her lad off at war. Instead, she wor...

A training programme with the aim of strengthening local development in communities around Sligo was launched on Friday last. Innovating Communities is an initiative which aims to encourage rural populations to open their minds to new ideas and ways of working. It is intended that the project will operate through a Design Thinking type process which will put people at the heart of decision making and idea generation. Its expected that a total of 102 training courses with up to 900 participants...

02-26-2021 Image courtesy: Accuweather AccuWeather Global Weather Center –  One week after a wild stretch of winter weather slammed a large portion of the southern United States with snow, ice and bitterly cold air, some of the same areas are now facing the risk of flooding. The same storm that brought some of the biggest snowfall accumulations of the winter to parts of Colorado on Wednesday and Thursday is expected to reorganize over the South Central states through the end of the week. Thi...