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Michael Flannery Arrested – October 1, 1981
On Thursday, October 1, 1981, Michael Flannery was arrested outside of his home in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY. Michael Flannery looked like your typical...
Remembering Augustine E. Costello & The Voyage Of Erin’s Hope
Augustine E. Costello was born in Killimor, Co. Galway in 1846. Little is known of his early childhood years, which were lived during the...
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The Men Behind The Wire
This week marks 50 years since the introduction of internment in the Six Counties.
Internment is imprisonment without trial. The goal of “Operation Demetrius” as...
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Northern Assembly Election Results
Northern Assembly Results
From its inception in 1920, the state of Northern Ireland was created to maintain a Unionist majority, putting an international border through...
St. Patrick’s Day 1982
The highest honor one can receive in Irish-American circles is to be named Grand Marshal of their local St. Patrick's Day Parade, with the...
Irish-American Heritage Month In Westchester
White Plains, NY — The Westchester County Board of Legislators kicked off Irish-American Heritage Month with a virtual ceremony on March 7th that highlighted...
Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Announces Move To Fairfield
The Gaelic American has previously covered the decision to close Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.
Ireland's Great Hunger was and is an incredibly...
Reactions to the Queen’s “Platinum Jubilee”
This year marks 70 years of the rule of British Queen Elizabeth. The Gaelic American asked, how should the Irish people & their Diaspora...
Hugh Lunney Remembered
February 18, 2022 marked one year since the passing of Hugh Lunney. Known to some as Hugh O'Lunney, he was a giant in the...
Hercules Mulligan: The True Story
Stephen McCracken, a Derry-based historian, has disproved commonly held beliefs about Hercules Mulligan, whose story was covered by The Gaelic American's Evacuation Day article....
Trad Week At The Wolfhound
Come Together for New York’s Most Anticipated Trad Music Festival! Monday Feb 14th - Sunday Feb 20th 2022
Trad Week is an annual tradition at...
Paine & The United Irishmen
Early Life
Thomas Paine was born on February 9, 1737 in Thetford, England. The son of a corset-maker, he worked as an excise officer in...
The Black & The Green: NY Irish Center Movie Showing
The British policy of criminalizing the Irish struggle for independence continued when the "criminalization" of Irish republican prisoners was launched on March 1, 1976....