Edna O’Brien outlived most of her critics in Ireland. The writer died at 93 on July 28, 2024.

Thousands of soldiers who sailed to America from Ireland in the 1700s joined their sons on the front lines of the Revolutionary War to free America from British rule.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

JFK in June 1963 addressing the Irish Parliament. His words were summoned by Ed Curtin at the fifteenth anniversary of the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.

by Father Jim Galluzzo. Delivered at the fifteenth anniversary of the dedication of the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial - 13 December 2023 - Mount Calvary Cemetery Portland Oregon.

In the summer of 2023, the newly appointed Consul General of Ireland on the West Coast, Micheal Smith, came to Portland to visit the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial. Here’s the presentation given to familiarize Smith with its back story and the accomplishment this Memorial represents for local members of the Irish Diaspora. 

Longtime Portland Hibernian Denny Codd passed away in October 2023.

Without the right weather conditions there would have been no Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The weather word tat General Eisenhower awaited finally came from Ireland.

A mid-summer jaunt from his nearby cottage took Kevin Burke to the summit of Croagh Patrick. Here’s his short account of the climb.

ROGER MARTIN - Requiescat in pace. Hundreds attended Roger’s funeral on Friday, July 14, 2023 at Our Lady of the Lake Church in Lake Oswego.

Portland Welcomes Ireland's West Coast Consul General Micheal Smith