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.

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.

President Trump’s recent post of a video/meme showing Barrack and Michele Obama as apes hit home for the AOH. The president of the oldest Irish Catholic org in America has taken Trump to task in a recent statement. Irish immigrants in the 19th century faced the same racism, he recalls.

The Irish writer Brendan Behan was born during the Irish Civil War on Feb. 9 in 1923. Most people have heard of Behan, but only because he caused a media sensation with his outrageous behavior. No one would have paid attention if he was just a successful writer. Rebel prisoner. Writer. Roustabout. Hopeless alcoholic. He was all these things and more.

The Hibernian High Cross at the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial inspired the President of George Fox College to commission a second High Cross sandstone replica by the late artist Brendan McGloin. The Cross is expected in late 2026 or early 2027.

Recent Golden Globe winner Jessie Buckley of Killarney, Co. Kerry is descended from a woman who played a role in the 1916 Rising and War of Independence in Ireland. How her genealogy can be a teachable moment.

The weather on December 13, 2008 was truly terrible at Mount Calvary Cemetery. That didn't stop the dedication of the Celtic High Cross at the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial. This year, on the seventeenth anniversary of the dedication, the father could not have been better for December in Portland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, now 81, is still on the front lines.

“My dad is Irish. My family is Irish. I have an Irish passport. The culture I was brought up around is Irish. The first music I learnt was Irish.”

Come September, the woman crowned the Queen of the Portland Rose Festival in May will be an undergraduate at Trinity College in Dublin.

The current President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is finishing his second seven-year term.  Voters will choose his successor in about three months.

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.

An epic court battle over who would teach Oregon’s children culminated in a momentous Supreme Court decision 100years ago on June 1, 1925.