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NOTE: Fair warning folks! It has been said that the Irish are incapable of making a long story short. This feature is proof positive that there is some validity to those words. While Butte residents will once again not have their traditional St. Patrick’s Day parade and many will not be heading to their favorite tavern, there is still much to celebrate and more importantly, to honor and be thankful for. Our Irish ancestors took a chance and left their homeland and opened a new chapter in the mining town that lay below the Continental Divide. The story below focuses on the immigrants of t...

A 1987 interview with the then U.S. Senator from Delaware, now presidential hopeful Joe Biden gave his first ever interview to an Irish publication in April, 1987 when he talked to Niall O’Dowd and revealed, for the first time in print, his passion for his Irish heritage, the story of his extraordinary Irish Catholic family, and his ambition, even back in 1987, to run for the White House. We are pleased to bring you that interview, from Irish America’s archives, in its entirety.  April, 1987: Senator Joseph Finnegan-Biden, head of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, is one of a ...

Another sad St. Patrick’s Day - we hold out hope for a grand party in 2022 Like last year, St. Patrick's Day is set to take on a very different form as the pandemic lingers. Irish Voice Editorial Mar 05, 2021 March 17, 2020: People celebrate St. Patrick's Day in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral even as the parade was canceled in New York City. Getty Images Facebook

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869-1877). Photo Wikimedia Commons By Carl Sferrazza Anthony There’s as much of the old sod in the White House as there is on its south lawn. The backgrounds of America’s First Families are diverse: Nancy Reagan and Lady Bird Johnson have Spanish forebears; Herbert Hoover was Swiss and Canadian; Mamie Eisenhower was part Swedish while Ike was German; Martin Van Buren and the Roosevelts were Dutch; James Garfield had a royal strain of French; Eliza Johnson’s parents were immigrant Scottish sandal-makers; both Calvin Coolidge and Edi...

Paul J. Maher, political and community leader, 87, of Wilkes-Barre, passed away peacefully on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021.