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.

If Irish songs were miles, Peter Yeates and Ken Larson would have been around the globe a couple of times by now. Daniel J. Curran writes about where they’ve been all these years.

Author Tim Egan appeared in Portland at McDaniel High School on Jan. 16. He told students there that he wrote The Immortal Irishman to remind his fellow Irish Americans that they were once unwelcome immigrants.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s best seller about The Troubles has been made into a pretty compelling nine-part television series.

Kathleen’s of Dublin was a fixture in downtown Portland from 1993 until its transformation in 2011 to The Celtic Jewelry Studio.

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.

Barm Brack is an Irish dessert bread that can contain clues to your future.

The Kennedy for President campaign came early and often to Oregon.

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.

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.

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.