The full index

Christine Goldbeck on Morgan Llywelyn's Finn Mac Cool and Bard, two novels that treat Irish legend as the record of real people.

A jailbird suitor, a husband at clogging class, a town drunk and a 45-year-old with cold feet: the Celtic Mirror's semi-fictitious Irish auntie answers them all.

Over lunch in Philadelphia, Morgan Llywelyn explained why she told the Easter Rising through a fictional Titanic survivor, and promised two sequels.

Tommy Symons on a Pennsylvania coal-country boyhood, a Welsh Methodist father, a grandfather from Tipperary, and learning to be Irish from Bing Crosby.

Christine Goldbeck's advance review of Pride of Lions, Morgan Llywelyn's novel of Brian Boru's son Donough in the years after Clontarf.

Over tea in New York, Morgan Llywelyn explained why Pride of Lions is not a sequel, and why Lion of Ireland must be filmed in Ireland.

Thomas Larkin's advance review of 1916, the Morgan Llywelyn novel that walks a Titanic survivor from a Kerry farm into the Easter Rising.

The front page of the Celtic Mirror's 2003 Morgan Llywelyn feature, restored, with a reader's guide to the novels that came before and after it.

Opening the March 2003 relaunch, Hugh Dougherty remembers the copy editor and the political writer who did not live to see An Scáthán return.

A summer call from Auntie Skattin means awnings, screens and a cedar chest in the garret, where Tommy Symons finds the hospital bill for his own birth.

Patrick S. McCormick argued in June 1998 that IRA disarmament could only come as part of a mutual stand-down, and tipped his hat to Clinton and Mitchell.

Days before the 1998 referendum, Bono shared a Belfast stage with John Hume and David Trimble. Patrick S. McCormick was not impressed.

Weeks after the Good Friday Agreement, Philadelphia named its chairman, former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell, for its Fourth of July honour.

On 22 May 1998 voters on both sides of the border endorsed the Good Friday Agreement. Patrick S. McCormick reported the result and the fights still ahead.

Written in West Belfast in 1996 and reprinted after the Good Friday Agreement, a sympathetic American portrait of the Sinn Féin president on the eve of all-party talks.

Alex Campbell traces the road to Drummossie Moor, where the Jacobite army broke on 16 April 1746, and finds his own clan on the government side.

Steve Blamires on Fergus mac Roich and his sword Caladbolg, the poet Feircheirdne, and Fionn mac Cumhaill's thumb of knowledge.

Every June 16, Dublin and its imitators walk the route of Leopold Bloom. Joan Farrell explains the fuss over a once-banned novel about one ordinary day.

In May 1998 the Government of Wales Bill was ahead of Scotland's, Plaid Cymru wanted a cabinet and its own oath, and Senedd was one possible name.

In April 1998 Chicago's Trinity Academy won three gold medals at the Irish dancing world championships in Ennis, a first for an American school.

Written weeks before the May 1998 referendums, this guide set out what the Good Friday Agreement promised and what Belfast people expected of it.

In April 1998 more than 1,500 people braved the rain to hear Seamus Heaney open Princeton's new Leonard L. Milberg collection of Irish poetry.

A 1998 review of John Matthews' collection of rare Celtic tales: Beira the winter queen, the maid who became Loch Ness, sea faeries and selkies.

After hearing Gerry Adams at Seton Hall, a New Jersey reader drew up a to-do list for Irish America, from UN status to radio requests and famine stamps.

On tour in New Mexico in 1998, the Leith singer talked about Braveheart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, atheism and why he never plays from a set list.

Part of a 1998 series on Irish myth: Cú Roí and the beheading game, the death gods Dearg and Donn, Deirdre of the Sorrows, and Diarmuid and Gráinne.

Weeks after the Good Friday Agreement, our history columnist asked both sides to speak softly, warned of the hate-mongers, and braced for the Twelfth of July.

Were the Scots really Irishmen who never went home? Alex Campbell weighed the Dál Riata tradition against the sceptics, from Scota and Fergus Mór to Kenneth MacAlpin.

A long, opinionated 1998 tour of Celtic Europe, from the sack of Rome and the Druids to Hadrian's Wall and Ireland, the one place Rome never reached.

Tommy Symons makes the case for a national St. Patrick's Day holiday, then reports from the parades, pubs and step-dance stages of the Pennsylvania coal region.

From Culloden to the Year of the Burning: a 1998 account of how the Highland chiefs traded their people for sheep, and where the emptied glens sent them.

Three weeks before Good Friday 1998, a columnist watches Clinton fail to get Trimble and Adams to shake hands, then turns to a death in his own family.

In 1998 American volunteers described taking Catholic and Protestant children from Northern Ireland into their homes for six summer weeks away from the marching season.

Tommy Symons retold the pub-wall tale of nine Irish rebels condemned in 1848 who rose to high office abroad. We checked it against the record.

In 1998 a Cork chef from a Michelin-starred family was selling 'new Irish cuisine' to America, one salmon-potato cake at a time.

Weeks before the Good Friday Agreement, the Belfast author of The Shankill Butchers and God and the Gun talked to us about killers, clergy and the coming deal.

March 1998: the House votes the MacBride fair-employment principles into a foreign affairs bill, and Father Sean McManus wonders whether President Clinton will sign.

Before Riverdance there was Trinity: Chicago's Mark Howard and his world-champion dancers on 'progressive Irish dance', the Mollies and turning down Flatley's rivals.

Producer Brian Keane explains in 1998 why Celtic music was suddenly big business on both sides of the Atlantic, and who was carrying the tradition forward.

Larry Kirwan of Black 47 on Paddy Reilly's, Michael Collins, Bobby Sands and why St. Patrick's Day shows in America have to be all ages.

A 1996 Belfast interview with Sinn Féin councillor Bobby Lavery, whose brother and son were shot dead by loyalists, published days before the Good Friday Agreement.

Tommy Symons weighs up buying a computer, then turns to what he really cared about: the Molly Maguires, the coal towns and the friends keeping their story alive.

In 1995 the hard coal towns of northeastern Pennsylvania were racing to cast their miners in bronze, and one local sculptor found himself in the middle of it.

In the autumn of the 1994 ceasefire, a Northern Ireland minister invited the emigrants of the Troubles to come home. Our editorial asked what guarantee they would get.

Four hours at Stormont on November 3, 1995, ended with Sinn Féin and minister Michael Ancram still split over IRA weapons and a date for all-party talks.

At a New Jersey college in October 1995, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey accused Sinn Féin of secret dealing and told Clinton to pardon Irish prisoners before visiting Ireland.

From woad-stained warriors to Book of Kells knotwork inked in Seattle and Boston: a 1995 essay on why the diaspora started wearing its heritage on its skin.

Writer Michael Gallagher put Cuchulainn, Newgrange and a Celestial called Scathan into Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, then watched the title get cancelled.

In October 1995 Taoiseach John Bruton refused to meet John Hume and Gerry Adams together, and Bertie Ahern called it an insult to nationalists.

A 1995 review of Chris Hill and Jill Jennings's colour photo book, which showed Belfast's pubs, parks and opera house in the first year of ceasefire.

Druid fires, disguises, Stingy Jack's turnip lantern and a Pennsylvania witch named Aolsta: our October 1995 look at how Samhain turned into Halloween.

In October 1995 inside sources promised a Jim Sheridan hunger-strike film with Brad Pitt as Bobby Sands. The film that arrived a year later looked rather different.

A 1995 review of John B. Keane's Durango, the Kerry playwright's comic novel of a hill farmers' cattle drive, on its American release.

Ceilis, a new AOH division, a 100th birthday and a tomato war: Tommy Symons rounds up the Irish summer of 1995 in Pennsylvania's coal country.

A Halloween-season column on blowouts, poll politics and the goblin on the winning coach's shoulder, written the autumn Bobby Bowden apologised to Duke.

Newt Gingrich's press secretary called Oliver Cromwell a misunderstood visionary in the Washington Post. Father Sean McManus made sure he took it back.

After the shock loss to Northwestern in September 1995, guard Ryan Leahy, grandson of coach Frank Leahy, carried a family name into a season that needed rescuing.

In the ceasefire year the Boston-based American Ireland Fund steered its grants north, from an $800 parents' centre to youth work in West Belfast.

On a five-day American tour in September 1995, Sinn Féin's chief negotiator told a Philadelphia audience that decommissioning was a British obstacle to all-party talks.

A Cork art dealer selling licensed prints in New York talked us through how monks on Iona and at Kells made the most famous Gospel book in Ireland.

Peacocks, beard-pulling men and rats fighting over the Eucharist: how the Kells monks turned the everyday animals and quarrels of their world into gospel lessons.

Before a line was painted, calves had to become vellum. A 1995 sidebar on the skins, and on a $6,250 set of licensed Kells prints.

Irish-American activists in Nutley wanted the Famine in every state's genocide curriculum. New Jersey said yes a year later, and the argument began.

In August 1995 young people in North Belfast's New Lodge painted the Great Hunger on a gable wall and tied it to the poverty outside their doors.

Our September 1995 editorial warned Bob Dole that a nod from Margaret Thatcher was worth nothing in an American voting booth, and Irish-American votes were.

A 1995 primer for American readers on the rules of Gaelic football, written days before Dublin met Tyrone in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park.

Ireland's equality minister told the 1995 Beijing women's conference his government would make equality real in law and in fact. What Dublin delivered.

Five months after the 1994-95 strike ended, a columnist weighed millionaire players against a coal-dirt lot called the Dairy Field and picked the lot.

An arts roundup from September 1995: an Irish trivia reference, The Brothers McMullen fresh from Sundance, a proverb book, and The Run of the Country.

A 1995 kitchen page: Dijon-glazed corned beef with steamed cabbage and red potatoes, plus a horseradish butter sauce, for busy weeknights.

A 1995 field guide to tracing an Irish family: write to Kildare Street, quiz the grandparents, read the signposts, and plan the trip as a homecoming.

Two great-aunts on the Bandon River, a concertina player’s death notice, and a visitor’s guide to set dancing, Wren Boys and Irish storytelling.

Our sports columnist sized up Peter “Hurricane” McNeeley, the Irish Catholic heavyweight from Massachusetts picked for Mike Tyson’s 1995 comeback, and did not like his chances.

Eleven months into the IRA ceasefire, a young Tyrone republican told a Pennsylvania AOH hall that London was stalling over guns, prisoners and talks.

Brando, Depp and Winger leave Ballycotton when Divine Rapture collapses; Edward Burns brings The Brothers McMullen to cinemas; two new books on Irish islands and archaeology.

In the 150th-anniversary summer of the Great Hunger, an Irish-American committee asked Downing Street for an apology and tied it to the peace process.

A year into the IRA ceasefire, Brussels approved $350 million for Northern Ireland and the border counties: the first of the EU’s PEACE programmes.

Two trips to Ireland yield a column of finds: the Slattery name, a royal visit that sank Muckross, a gentlemanly siege at Enniscorthy, and Aughrim.

In 1995 Trinity College Dublin licensed a numbered set of silk-screen prints from three of the Book of Kells’ most famous pages, at $6,250 a set.

An American lawyer takes a continuing education course at University College Dublin, then drives his young family to Cork, Limerick and Wicklow.

On the eve of the 1995 season, a salute to Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly for his late-game comebacks and his charity work in western New York.

Pennsylvania’s Hibernians elected new officers at Valley Forge in July 1995, then processed with pipes to the AOH obelisk in the Medal of Honor Grove.

A 1995 guide to outdoor Ireland: golf for under $20 a day, riding treks, salmon rivers, race days and boat trips to the islands.

In the summer of 1995 Pat Buchanan worked Pennsylvania's Reagan Democrats, sure they could carry him past Bob Dole and then Bill Clinton.

Belfast singer Ray Collins on the clubs that raised him, the friends he lost, and the York Street songs on his album As I Roved Back.

In 1995 the National Park Service approved what it said would be the last monument at Antietam, honouring the Irish Brigade’s charge at Bloody Lane.

In July 1995, 1,500 reenactors, the director of the film Gettysburg and the men of a modern 116th Pennsylvania Irish Brigade company refought the battle.

The early release of Private Lee Clegg, jailed for killing a Belfast teenager, brought the worst rioting since the 1994 IRA ceasefire in July 1995.

A July 1995 Celtic Mirror editorial weighed claims that the IRA was ready to go back to war, counted the dividends of peace, and bet on the ceasefire.

In 1995 a Killarney-born painter working outside Chicago turned from cliffs and mountains to the old Irish kitchen, and found a new audience for it.

In 1995 a 35-year-old Scranton lawyer set out to follow his father into Pennsylvania's auditor general's office. He went a good deal further.

Leon Uris, laid up with a bad back, told us by telephone why the Larkin family saga needed a second book, and where the Larkin name came from.

In July 1995 John Major dared his party to sack him, won, and reshuffled his cabinet. The victory bought him less than two years.

Thomas Larkin, baptized in the parish, went home to Centralia, Pennsylvania, for the last Mass at St. Ignatius Loyola before the mine-fire town lost its church.

Colin Lacey found Van Morrison's 1995 album pleasant but familiar. Its title track went on to become the soundtrack of a peace process.