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From John O’Hara to Claire Jiménez, via Nabokov and Maya Angelou, these works showcase cultural cross-over in American writing
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F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is the great Irish diaspora novel
At a time when Irishness in the US is sometimes used to service ‘white power’ messaging, it is imperative to uncover the recognition of past Irish ‘off-whiteness’ in Irish-American writers
The Routledge History of Irish America: A vast and comprehensive study of all aspects of the Irish-American experience
Vigorous and critically minded history proves that the shifting and sometimes contradictory ‘social construct’ of Irish America cannot be reduced to one singular identity
The curtain is coming down on Ireland’s soft power in the US
Whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins the presidency in November, Ireland will not be much of a priority
Murder of an Irish man: Killing of chef Shaun Brady highlights Kansas City’s shocking gun problem
‘Shaun was everything great that an Irishman abroad could be,’ says former footballer Niall Quinn - one of the past invited guests at this weekend’s Kansas City Irish Fest that Brady catered for
Two teenagers arrested after Irish chef shot dead outside his restaurant in Kansas City
Shaun Brady, originally from Nenagh, was shot in car park outside his restaurant after trying to intervene in suspected car theft
‘An extremely bad man’: Ballymoney reacts to news of Kamala Harris’s Irish slave-owning ancestor
One woman with links to Co Antrim-born slaver Hamilton Brown says it will be a difficult history to package
Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York: Forensic study highlights migrant triumph
Tyler Anbinder digs deep into real-life records to animate the social and economic strides made by the Irish in the US despite arduous conditions and initial press demonisation as ‘lazy’ Catholics
Mr Varadkar goes to Washington: Is the Taoiseach’s St Patrick’s Day trip to the US really worth it?
Ireland’s easy access to and close relationship with the most powerful nation on Earth remains a huge diplomatic asset
Is it time we had some more emigrant Senators?
There is a belief Irish voters could reject a referendum on votes for the diaspora in presidential elections over fears of a future outsize vote. So here’s an alternative proposal
Connection with diaspora ‘starting to waver’, forum hears
Conference in Dublin Castle hears young Irish Americans generally not involved with any Irish organisation unlike previous generations
Megan Nolan: I gave Dublin a shot for seven years and nothing good had come of it. Why not cut my losses?
I find myself wondering what I sound like to people back home and how I would sound had I never left
The Táin retold: ‘Maeve and Ailill’s spat could be out of a soap opera’
Alan Titley is bringing out a new version of the epic story which ‘has gripped the attention of Ireland for centuries long’
It’s time for St Patty’s Day and Irish-Americans are disgracing themselves again
Donald Clarke: No semi-sane Irish person could watch these TikToks without risking extreme bile reflux
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