CURRENT ISSUE:  OCTOBER 2023

Safe Home: May 2023

MARY HOUGH MARY C. HOUGH, age 55, loving mother of Moira Hough; beloved daughter of Kathleen (nee Lynch) and the late James P. Hough; dear sister of Patrick (Katie), Sheila […]

Blowin’ In: – Tasting the Sea

Blowin’ In: Tasting the Sea By Susan Mangan InishturkOur cousin lives and works on the beautiful island of Inishturk. Her husband is a lobsterman. Jokingly, I asked if he could […]

Cleveland Irish: Fire Lands

Cleveland Irish: Fire Lands By Francis McGarry I listened to Marshall Sahlins at the 2001 American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in our nation’s capital. He was a professor at Chicago, […]

Éasca Péasca: Student Stories

Éasca Péasca: Student Stories By Marie Young Éasca Péasca: Student StoriesBy Madeline Leatherbarrow My journey as an undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh began with my interest in psychology. […]

What’s the Craic: May 2023

Brooklyn – Hooley House!5th – Almost Famous, 13th – Disco Inferno, 26th- Nick Zuber on the Patio (6-9pm). 10310 Cascade Crossing, Brooklyn 216-362-7700. 1FunPub.com  ClevelandAer Lingus19th –Aer Lingus direct flights Cleveland to Dublin (Sun., Mon., Wed., […]

Donnybrook: Northern Ireland Protocol Hurdles

Windsor FrameworkNew U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunyak has made progress to break through the Northern Ireland Protocol hurdles. It is unlikely that his predecessor, P.M. Boris Johnson, really wanted to […]

Speak Irish: The Dark Goddess

In one of the most famous, “Tain Bó Cuailnge” or the Cattle Raid of Cooley, she appears as a heifer at one point, but also leads an army of fifty-thousand, comprised of warriors from all four provincces of Ireland. When the battle cath (cah) cath a chur, (cah ah chur) to wage a battle (cath a bhriseadh ar orm means to defeat an enemy in battle), starts to go against her, she grabs a sword