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James Rogers, Director, Center for Irish Studies, University of Saint Thomas. ℘℘℘ With the passing of Eoin McKiernan, 89, (see October / November 2004’s Last Word column) we reflect on his rich legacy that lay in his love of Ireland. No one was more knowledgeable on Ireland or Irish America than Eoin. For many years – until the beginning of the year 2000 – he penned the Last Word column for this magazine. He wrote about politics and history, literature and language, of great events and everyday incidents that marked our passage. He told us stories of great heroes and reminded us o...

Review by Dave Lewis ℘℘℘ Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance and Epic Feud that Created the Modern Democratic Party by Terry Golway allows readers to see the massive change to the Democratic party that both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Al Smith ushered in during the mid- 20th century. While these men came from complete opposite sides of the spectrum, Roosevelt from the Protestant rich upper echelon of New York and Smith from the Catholic working class saw the corruption and mistakes that the New York political establishment Tammany Hall created, and knew that it need...

As an Indian or American, as an interpreter or publisher, Taraknath Das always fought for India’s freedom.

On This Day: Easter Rising leader Thomas Clarke was executed On This Day: Easter Rising leader Thomas Clarke was executed The moments that defined Thomas Clarke's life and why he is such an important figure in Irish history Facebook Comments Thomas Clarke, a key member of the Irish revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. was among the rebel leaders executed on May 3, 1916. Thomas J. Clarke was born in 1858 on the Isle of Wight but grew up in County Tyrone. At age 20 he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and his career as an indefatigable Irish revolutionary ...

Fri, Nov 6th 2020 10:48am — Timothy Geigner As we've discussed before, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many educational institutions into remote learning and with it, remote test-taking. One of the issues in all of that is how to ensure students taking exams are doing so without cheating. Some institutions employ humans to watch students over video calls, to ensure they are not doing anything untoward. But many, many others are using software instead that is built to try to catch cheating by algorithmically spotting "clues" of cheating. Proctorio is one of those anti-cheat platforms. The s...