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Even if Biden becomes president, there’s no turning back
- Culture
- October 31, 2020, 06:06
Last year, I inflicted a series of letters to my Irish father on the reading public of the United States and, I am told, several customers at Hodges F(...)

Donald Trump’s doctor becomes cheerleader-in-chief
- US
- October 6, 2020, 15:08
Sean Conley’s appearance in front of the television cameras on Monday was everything Donald Trump wanted to see from one of his advisers: it was confi(...)

A history of secrecy when it comes to presidential illness
- US
- October 4, 2020, 15:04
A deadly pandemic raged across the world. Millions had been infected. And suddenly the US president himself was hit by the virus. The year was 1919. (...)

Trump is unwittingly helping US to confront its Confederate past
- US
- June 25, 2020, 12:28
Once in a while America’s former slave states resemble one of those horror movies in which the monster keeps lurching back to life. There have been en(...)

Populists and greens are a political alliance in waiting
- US
- October 9, 2019, 17:00
The first photographs of our planet from the moon made it look as finite and delicate as a glass ball. The images are credited in some quarters for th(...)

The grandson of an Irish nationalist who became ‘Boy Mayor of New York’
- Abroad
- September 3, 2019, 00:00
The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir lies at the heart of Central Park in New York City. A frequent backdrop to Hollywood movies, its 2.5 kilometr(...)

Trump confirms he is considering attempt to buy Greenland
- US
- August 19, 2019
Donald Trump has confirmed he is considering an attempt to buy Greenland for strategic reasons, though he said the idea was “not number one on the bur(...)

A Twentieth-Century Crusade review: Eye-opening look at the Catholic Church and fascism
- Books
- August 16, 2019, 06:00
“We behold with sorrow,” wrote Achille Ratti (the new Pope Pius XI) in 1922, “society lapsing back slowly but surely into a state of barbarism.” Despi(...)

Jim Jarmusch: ‘The Dead Don’t Die cast were paid in oatmeal’
- Film
- July 6, 2019, 06:30
YOU CAN READ THE FILM-MAKER’S PERSONALITY IN HIS DEADPAN, SARDONIC CINEMA. HE DOESN’T SOUND EXACTLY HAPPY – BUT HE’S NOT IN DESPAIR EITHER Here (...)

Éamon de Valera’s US trip that left Irish America divided
- US
- June 1, 2019, 01:00
As Ireland continues to mark various centenaries connected to the struggle for independence, this month marks the 100-year anniversary of an important(...)