Rather than instruments of democracy, these bodies now reflected “a Mac-ocracy by which I mean a banditti of low Scotch-Irish whose names generally begin with Mac—and who are either the sons ...

Part of that research is finding out how and why Irish people started coming to Savannah. As for the how- it started before the Revolutionary War when six boatful’s of Presbyterian Scots-Irish ... for ...

"There is no such thing as one, definitive, version of Irish America." This phrase, or a variation of it, comes up time and time again when speaking to people who broadly fit under the umbrella of ...

The soldiers of Saint Patrick’s Battalion are regarded as national heroes in Mexico and Ireland. M arch 17 is, of course, St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pá ...

One question looms large above others in Irish politics: what are the prospects of a united Ireland ... Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which society’s rules are explained in detail.

some have been in the United States for less than 12 months. They all say the vision of Irish America that is still common in the popular imagination - of corner bars in Boston, Cork-accented cops ...

"First of all, we became affluent, and money defines a lot of politics in the United States," he told RTÉ ... of the Ulster Unionists, or the Scots-Irish, who came to Appalachia and to the ...

A failure by the executive to appoint commissioners for the Irish language and Ulster-Scots has been criticised by a United Nations ... experts that monitors how states are implementing ...

Between history, spirituality and legend, the figure of Saint Patrick, who has become a key element of a tormented Irish identity, tells the story of the slow Christianization of an island that has ...

A failure by the executive to appoint commissioners for the Irish language and Ulster-Scots has been criticised by a United Nations (UN) committee. The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural ...

In the first sort of 40 years of Irish independence we were an insular agrarian economy and society ... has worked sweetly for Ireland and the United States. Asked what he would do if the issue ...