The stories linked below have been published beyond this blog. They are based on my travels to Ireland since 2000 and U.S. reporting and research on Irish issues. Most are linked to the publication, but some are reproduced with original content and headlines because the original is no longer available online. A few stories are about non-Irish subjects.
From newest to oldest:
St. Charles welcomes portrait of its patron saint
Arlington Catholic Herald, May 3, 2022 (Non-Irish)
My pilgrimages to St. Patrick’s churches
Arlington Catholic Herald, March 11, 2022
At 50th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” Peace Feels Less Certain
History News Network, (George Washington University), Jan. 30, 2022
Cheers and Jeers for Ireland: Éamon De Valera’s Alabama Experience
Alabama Heritage Magazine, Winter 2022 (Subscribers only. Contact me for a copy.)
Book review: “The Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster”
Western Pennsylvania History Magazine, Fall 2021 (Non-Irish)
Forgotten Charity Between Ireland and America, 1889 & 1921
The Irish Story, Sept. 3, 2021
War Relief to Listowel and North Kerry, 1921
Listowel Connection, Aug. 23, 2021
ACIS Connects the Past, Future of Irish-American Relations
History News Network, (George Washington University), June 14, 2021
Cardinal Gibbons, who died 100 years ago, was committed to Ireland
Catholic Review (Baltimore), March 11, 2021
Will Biden Shake Up a Century of US-Ireland Relations?
History News Network, (George Washington University), Dec. 13, 2020
Home at War, 1920: Diaspora Witness Statements to the American Commission on Conditions in Ireland
Irish Diaspora Histories Network, Nov. 15, 2020
The History of the Boycott Shows a Real Cancel Culture
History News Network, (George Washington University), Aug. 2, 2020
‘Likely to cause disaffection to His Majesty’, the Seizure of Irish newspapers
The Irish Story, May 17, 2020
When Irish Was Spoken in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Quarterly, March 16, 2020
Ruth Russell in Revolutionary Ireland
The Irish Story, Jan. 8, 2020
When an Irish Rebel Had His Portrait Drawn in Louisville
The Filson Historical Society Blog, June 28, 2019 (Linked to Internet Archive Way Back Machine. Filson blog discontinued.)
1888: An American Journalist In Ireland
The Irish Story, Sept. 13, 2018
Marking Time with Frederick Douglass
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 22, 2018 (Non-Irish)
Ireland’s Famine Children ‘Born at Sea’
Prologue Magazine, Winter 2017/18
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
The Manchester martyrs: From last letters to lasting legends
The Irish Story, Nov. 9, 2017
Life Without End Date
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 3, 2017 (Non-Irish)
Irish Immigrants, Unbanned
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 9, 2017
Mrs. Brophy’s Late Husband
The Irish Story, Dec. 8, 2016
PDF copy: MBLH
Trump, Clinton and their Irish connections
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 14, 2016
Nora’s Sorrow: The Murder of John Foran, 1888
The Irish Story, Feb. 29, 2016
The Celtic Tiger is purring again…
Washington Business Journal, Sept. 17, 2014
No pot of gold for D.C. Irish American Museum
Washington Business Journal, March 12, 2014
An Odd Coincidence
History Ireland, March 11, 2014
New chamber seeks to improve ties between Florida and Ireland
Tampa Bay Business Journal, Nov. 6, 2013
Irish mud keeps the fate of Channelside unclear
Tampa Bay Business Journal, June 25, 2013
Ballybunion man emigrated 100 years ago
Ballybunion News, April 19, 2013
ConnectIreland pays for tips that lead to new jobs
Tampa Bay Business Journal, March 15, 2013
Irish Consul General Gleeson touts two-way business relationship
Tampa Bay Business Journal, Sept. 7, 2012
Newcomer wants to add substance to Tampa’s St. Patrick’s Day
Tampa Bay Business Journal, March 16, 2012
Return Journey: Ireland’s Lartigue Railway
History Magazine, August/September 2009
Forum: The new Ireland
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 15, 2009
Forum: Meeting my grandfather
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 4, 2009
PDF part 1, PDF part 2
Struggles Bring Changes for Modern Ireland
The Tampa Tribune, Sept. 23, 2007
Ireland’s New City at the End of the Rainbow
The Mobile Register, March 17, 2002
Terrorism in Northern Ireland: Catholics and Protestants are coping with decades of violence
The Mobile Register, Oct. 28, 2001
In Search of William and Nora
The Mobile Register, June 18, 2000