Diaspora
Irish and Scottish America: brigades, coal towns, emigrants and the families who went home to look.
Project Children benefits youth and host families alike
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.
Past struggles in Pa. coal fields become inspiration for artist: Monuments, memorials salute coal miners
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.
Press secretary apologizes: Cromwell comments insult Irish community
Newt Gingrich's press secretary called Oliver Cromwell a misunderstood visionary in the Washington Post. Father Sean McManus made sure he took it back.
Irish Great Famine taught alongside Jewish Holocaust: New Jersey law used as model for nation
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.
Conference links women from around the world
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.
PEC calls on Britain to apologize for famine: Petition drive initiated
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.
Irish Medal of Honor recipients honored at Pa. convention: New state officers elected
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.
Conservative Democrats will make the difference in presidential bid
In the summer of 1995 Pat Buchanan worked Pennsylvania's Reagan Democrats, sure they could carry him past Bob Dole and then Bill Clinton.
History repeats as another Casey enters Pennsylvania political life
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.
A fond farewell to a century of memories
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.