Nick Maxwell By Daragh Fitzgerald The Irish story in New York is generally misrepresented according to Tyler Anbinder, who seeks to correct the record in Plentiful country: the Great Potato Famine and the making of Irish New York. By 1855, a third of all adults in Manhattan were Irish migrants from the Famine, a remarkable statistic. Hollywood … Read more
National Gallery of Ireland Ends 19 July 2026 By Luke Gibbons W.B. Yeats’s The works of William Blake (1893), edited with Edwin J. Ellis, did much to establish the reputation of the great Romantic poet/artist, all but neglected until then. Yeats went a step further and sought to establish Blake’s Irish ancestry through a putative … Read more
HarleyBoo Productions, directed by Mike SheridanAvailable on Apple TV By Seán Patrick Donlan Amplified is a curious kind of time capsule. The bulk of the film focuses on American cultural and political developments, particularly the rise of Trumpism and the ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) movement. A second section is devoted to Ireland. But despite … Read more
RTÉ1, 3 & 10 May 2026, and RTÉ Player By Sylvie Kleinman ‘They had to shed people, and they shed them all over the world.’ Typifying Ireland’s twentieth-century diaspora, the London-born trade unionist Mick Lynch was one of six ‘well-known’ Irish faces in this two-part series, reflecting on family enumerated in the 1926 census. The … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr On 12 July 1926, the executive council of the Irish Free State decided to adopt Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldier’s Song) as Ireland’s national anthem. W.T. Cosgrave was the driving force behind the decision, but the path to its acceptance and adoption was a tortured one. Since the mid-eighteenth century, … Read more