Bill Gallagher Bill Gallagher

23andDoReMi

With Irish-British making up a majority of 23andMe customers, Gallagher’s Irish Celtic Corner took a look at what’s happening with all their data.

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Nogher McGinley Nogher McGinley

SF Great Famine Memorial by SFGate

San Francisco seems to be on track to fund and build the San Francisco Irish Great Famine Memorial Plaza. The location is in the northwest corner of the City and will initially be a plaza overlooking the 17th hole (par 3) of the Lincoln Park Golf Course looking out on the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Bill Gallagher Bill Gallagher

See something. Say Nothing.

Dolours Price in costume as she pulls off a bank robbery with her sister Marian in the opening of Episode Two of the Hulu series Say Nothing, based in Belfast in the 197os.

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Nogher McGinley Nogher McGinley

Ulysses Unbanned: How one judge came through

Ninety years ago this month, American readers were getting their first look at a modern masterpiece written by the Irish author James Joyce; only made possible due to a fascinating court battle.

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Portland Hibernian Society Portland Hibernian Society

Belated Bloomsday

Time Magazine - James Joyce - January 29, 1934. This year’s Portland Hibernian Society Bloomsday observance will take place Thursday, June 20 at Kells Restaurant. Read on for a few details.

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Daniel J. Curran Daniel J. Curran

An Echo of Eire in Eugene 

What a long, lively, generous trip it’s been for the Irish Echo Band of Lane County. Since 1981, this multi-generational, multi-instrumental ensemble has performed the hits of Hibernia and raised thousands for Catholic charities. Daniel Curran has an inside look.

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Bill Gallagher Bill Gallagher

Who WAS Stephen J. McCormick? A timeline.

In April 1859, the men who voted for a new Mayor of Portland ignored the “virulent nativism” that had taken hold in some eastern cities during the turbulent 1850s. Their response to those who treated the Irish Catholic immigrant as second class citizen was to elect one as Mayor. Stephen J. McCormick was 29 when he won that election.

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Nogher McGinley Nogher McGinley

Modern Irish History

“Significant symbolic moment.” “Once unthinkable.” “A truly seismic breakthrough.” In Belfast, Michelle O’Neill of Sinn Fein has become the first non-Protestant to lead Northern Ireland.

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