Mark Holan's Irish-American Blog

A journalist's blog dedicated to Irish and Irish-American history and contemporary issues.

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About Me
  • American reporting of Irish independence
  • Freelance stories
    • Ballybunion man emigrated 100 years ago
    • In search of William and Nora: Finding his grandparents roots brings a new feeling of home
    • Ireland’s New City at the end of the rainbow
    • Return Journey: Ireland’s Lartigue Railway
    • Struggles Bring Changes for Modern Ireland
    • Terrorism in Northern Ireland: Protestants and Catholics are coping with decades of violence
  • GUEST POSTS
  • His Last Trip
  • Ireland Under Coercion, Revisited
    • IUC, Revisited: People, Places & Events
  • LINKS
  • Nora’s Sorrow
    • Foran timeline, notes & links
    • NS: Full version
  • Pittsburgh Irish
  • Places to Visit
  • ROUNDUPS
    • 1916 Centennial
  • ST. PATRICK’s CHURCHES

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, 2017

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. I’ll be updating this post through the day with news of the Irish and Irish America on this special day.

  • Donald Trump’s ‘Irish proverb’ was probably not Irish, PolitiFact
  • Trump and Ryan’s embarassing St. Patrick’s Day mishaps (video), The Washington Post
  • Ireland’s prime minister calls on Donny Boy, with the wrong message, Salon
  • Ireland looks to a progressive and potentially united future, The (U.K.) Independent

  • US media highlights Kenny’s ‘lecturing’ of Trump on immigrants, The Irish Times

  • The jounrey of Mike Pence’s grandather from Ireland, The New York Times

  • Remarks by President Trump and Taoiseach Enda Kenny of Ireland at Friends of Ireland Luncheon, White House
  • Remarks by the Vice President to the American Ireland Fund National Gala, White House

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

Related

This entry was posted in Arts & Culture, History, Irish America, Politics, Religion and tagged Donald Trump, Enda Kenny, Michael Higgins, Mike Pence, St. Patrick's Day on March 17, 2017 by admin.

Post navigation

← Reading Devoy’s “Recollections” at the library, and online Irish republican leader Martin McGuinness dies at 66 →

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Recent Posts

  • MacSwiney’s ‘Principals of Freedom’ makes U.S. debut January 17, 2021
  • A letter from troubled Kerry, January 1921 January 10, 2021
  • Trump’s ‘American carnage’ as seen from Ireland January 6, 2021

Follow me on Twitter @markaholan Follow me on Twitter @markaholan

  • Three months after his death, Terence MacSwiney's 'Principles of Freedom' prompted a new round of headlines in U.S.… https://t.co/cRcDYovPEh, 15 hours ago
  • My Irish friends talk of "snap elections." Today, U.S. House Republicans complain about "snap impeachment." They wa… https://t.co/tWU08KnplD, Jan 13
Follow me on Twitter

Archives

Categories

  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Environment
  • Guest Post
  • History
  • Irish America
  • Irish War of Independence
  • IUC, Revisted
  • Journalism
  • Northern Ireland
  • Politics
  • Religion
  • Sport
  • Uncategorized

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Proudly powered by WordPress
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.