One hundred years after it was taken, the guts and nuts and bolts of the 1926 Irish census have been released. Millions have flocked to the online information provided about a newly-independent Irish Free State with the census.. This was the first census taken in Ireland since 1911.

Eleven centuries before the Hibernian High Cross was dedicated in Portland, OR, the original Cross of the Scriptures went up at Clonmacnoise, Ireland. And it never came down. CROSS TALK is a series of articles to come about the local Irish High Cross and the connections to Irish history and culture. This is Column One: How and why and who built it.

Ever thought of not just visiting Ireland but actually moving there? Then you might want to read a few good reasons to consider certain factors before you do. There are plenty of PROS to the prospect of such a move. But there are some CONS to consider too.

Help Wanted - No Irish Need Apply. Is this sign evidence of discrimination in America in the 19th Century or is it fake news - merely a myth that allows the Irish to claim victimhood? Don’t base your opinion on this image. NINA never goes away and AI is fanning the flames again.

There’s never been a feud like the one between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV. While that dispute is Developing News, we look back at relations between the White House and the Vatican and how American Catholics are processing the current row.

Meet Aoife Raftery, rally race car driver from Craughwell in Co. Galway and “a rising star from Ireland with global ambitions, making waves across Europe and beyond” She’s back in the PNW to race at the Olympus Rally in Shelton WA April 17 - 19. 2026.

Sunday, April 12 was a big day for Portlanders longing to see the Thompson Elk Fountain restored to its place in the heart of downtown Portland. One of the key players in the project to bring it back after the tumultuous summer of 2020 was Hibernian David O’Longaigh.

In Ireland, truckers, farmers and others whose livelihoods depend on fuel have ended protests of higher prices that began Tuesday and disrupted traffic across the country. Here’s one theory as to why it ended: So protestors could get home and watch Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry in th Masters.

As we note the 85th anniversary of the bombing of Belfast by the German Luftwaffe in World War Two, let’s take a look at the heroics of Ireland’s greatest ballad singer Delia Murphy.

Corrib Theatre brings John Patrick Shanley’s “Irish” play to Portland for a run that begins April 2. Not his most successful work, but one worth watching, debuted in New York in 2014. Article includes some of the lines from the play.

There will be no need to search for tickets to World Cup games this summer featuring either of the men’s teams from Ireland. For the Republic’s team, this will be the sixth time since 2002 that they’ve failed to qualify. Is the pint half full or half empty? Read on.

When Ireland’s leader politely pushed back on the Churchill-As-Hero narrative at the White House on St. Patrick’s Day he was tapping into Irish history. Micheal Matin acknowledged Churchill’s leadership in World War Two but differed with Trump when it comes to his legacy in Ireland.

Fifty years ago in late March a 900-page novel about Ireland from the Penal Laws through the Famine to the Rising, started its climb up the U.S. best seller lists. Trinity by Leon Uris would become the best-selling novel in America through that Bicentennial Summer. There’s no question whose side it took in the centuries-old conflict between Ireland and England, Catholic and Protestant.

The Congressman who made life in America possible for 45,000 citizens of Ireland and Northern Ireland 30 years ago shared the benefits of immigration with 55 American citizens who have become Irish citizens too.

There are thousands of banquets being held around the world this month of March 2026 with the same theme: Hail glorious Saint Patrick….in so many words. Portland is no exception. Hibernian Colleen Schultz shared these photographs from the evening.

Part of the annual observance of Saint Patrick’s Day in March is the issuing of the Irish-America Heritage Month Proclamation. What’s with that?

Peter Cullen, who has been at the center of Irish American activities in Greater Portland since the turn of the century, has passed away. What a life for this devoted family man, proud and active Hibernian, native Irishman and friend to hundreds.

When the bagpipes play it’s time to eat at the annual Hibernian Saint Patrick’s Day Banquet on March 7, 2026. Have you signed up? It might not be too late. Find all the details of the evening here.

The centennial year of Saint Mary’s Cathedral in NW Portland began on Feb. 14, 2026 with a special Mass. One hundred years ago on that date thousands turned out to celebrate the “splendid edifice” that was the new epicenter of Catholic life in Greater Portland. Read what that occasion says about the persistence of the Catholic Church in Oregon.

Sean Connery doesn’t even try to fake an Irish accent in Darby O’Gill and the Little People, a Disney movie most likely to be seen in March. Filmed in Burbank with mostly non-Irish actors, it’s kind of delightful. Especially if you’ve never seen it.