Gemma Whelan talks with Hibernian Daniel Curran about her pivot to publishing with Shangana Press, named after her childhood home in Dublin. Daniel has details about the annual theater tour to Ireland she runs with her husband.

Dublin decided not to change the name of Herzog Park. Originally named in 1995 for Chaim Herzog, a former President of Israel born in Belfast and raised in Dublin, the park’s name also honors his father, Yitzak Herzog, He was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland after independence in 1921.

PART TWO - Ireland voted to legalize divorce thirty years ago. On Nov. 24, 1995 a tiny majority of voters amended the constitution, which banned the “dissolution of marriage.” The campaign was rancorous. The outcome established the right to remarry. Divorce rates didn’t rise as much as some feared they would.

Part One - Voters in Ireland said YES to legalizing divorce 30 years ago on Nov. 24, 1995. Just nine years earlier voters had said NO on the same issue. Much had changed in Ireland but the vote favoring divorce was extremely close.

We’re Irish. We like to read and we like to talk. Join us at Kells Restaurant Thursday 11.20 at Six P.M. for an evening of book talk.

Long before Patrick Radden Keefe got the idea to write Say Nothing about The Troubles, Ed Moloney had been running with and reporting on the major players in NI between 1972 and 1998. He died in mid-October.

Just when it looked like Ireland was out of the World Cup picture again, Troy Parrot scored a goal in the 95th minute against Hungary to keep hope alive. Ireland advances to WC play offs in late March. Opponents to be determined this Thursday 11.20.25.

As a result of the regular rotation of diplomats by Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Marianne Bolger will move from Amman, Jordan to San Francisco, California in 2026. Current Consul General Micheal Smith has been named Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and will move to Riyadh in September.

It’s a UK tradition to honor veterans by wearing red paper poppies in early November.But this season, four Irish professional soccer players in England aren’t wearing poppies on their uniforms. James McClean was the first pro soccer player not to wear the poppy on his uniform 13 years ago. He explains why.

The amazing story of Monsignor Hugh OFlaherty’s work to save more than 6,000 Jews, POWs and partisans in Italy in 1943 is being told again. But for too long it’s been untold, say some.

The last native Irishman elected Mayor of New York was William O’Dwyer. After a first term from 1945 to 1949, he was reelected in a landslide only to leave office in 1951 as a criminal corruption investigation reached Gracie Mansion. He was never charged. Questions persist.

The pint of Guinness. What could be more Irish than this one at Ted’s in Cashel, Co. Mayo? The maker of the best selling stout in the world is the subject of a Netflix series and plans to open a “brewery experience” in London in December. For Guinness, business has never been better. But they better not raise the price of a pint in Ireland.

Catherine Connolly, Independent, was expected to win the presidential election in Ireland. But not by a landslide. The Making of a President 2025.

The unlikely choice for Ireland’s first President was Douglas Hyde. The Leading advocate of the Irish language, he was an organizer of the Gaeic League, from which the 1916 Rising flowed. Hundreds of Oregonians heard him speak in 1906.

The epicenter of Trump Ireland is Doonbeg, Co. Clare, the town nearest the Trump golf course and hotel along the Atlantic Ocean.

How did Robert Emmett, leader of a failed rebellion in 1803, become such an icon of Irishness? His name. image, likeness and last words were ubiquitous in Irish America.

Ireland’s decision NOT to name its new national hospital after Dr. Kathleen Lynn is controversial. She had a remarkable career as pediatrician, freedom fighter, politician and children’s hospital founder.

Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue Pipes and Drums has been performing for a quarter of a century and will celebrate that milestone at Clancy’s in Sherwood on September 17.

Elon Musk is at it again. He’s aiding Conor McGregor’s last ditch effort to get on the ballot in Ireland’s election of a new President next month.

The complicated legacy of Eamon de Valera will be the stuff of arguments for years to come among the Irish. It was fifty years ago that he died after a reign that lasted most of the 20th century.