Bill Gallagher 9/21/25 Bill Gallagher 9/21/25

Movements need martyrs and monuments

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.

Bill Gallagher 9/17/25 Bill Gallagher 9/17/25

How could Ireland not name the new National Hospital after this woman?

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.

Bill Gallagher 9/7/25 Bill Gallagher 9/7/25

They used to call it “De Valera’s Ireland”

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.

Bill Gallagher 11/21/24 Bill Gallagher 11/21/24

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.

Nogher McGinley 2/3/24 Nogher McGinley 2/3/24

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.

Portland Hibernian Society 12/21/23 Portland Hibernian Society 12/21/23

Build the Nation: A Blessing

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.