John J. Mullen, chairman and owner of The Apple Leisure Group, began his travel career with United Airlines and later Lufthansa. In 1969, he opened a small travel agency in Drexel Hill, PA, ...

The newly re-opened American Irish Historical Society provided the backdrop to a beautiful evening that saw three legendary leaders in the Irish community in New York being inducted into the Irish ...

Gerald Corcoran (Gerry) has been the chief executive officer of R.J. O’Brien & Associates since 2000 and chairman of its board since 2007. The independent futures brokerage firm is the nation’s oldest ...

A WILDFIRE which swept through a popular beauty spot in Co. Kerry this week is believed to have been started by ‘reckless’ human activity. The fire broke out at Killarney National Park on July 14, ...

Erin Fitzsimmons is the managing director of the wealth management company First Republic Bank, where she has held tenure for the past eleven years. In her role, she leads the development and ...

The Famine Irish in Glasgow features Sir Tom Devine, Emeritus Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. Sir Tom looks at the Irish emigrants who arrived in ...

Seán MacBride’s career spans the history of independent Ireland. His father was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, when Irish independence was first proclaimed. As a teenager, he fought in ...

The Celtic cross that the Ladies’ Ancient Order of Hibernians Auxiliary dedicated to Great Hunger victims at the Cohasset Cemetery in Massachusetts. Her other books include: Black Abolitionists In ...

In August 1845, an American “fugitive slave” named Frederick Douglass arrived in Dublin. He was seeking refuge from capture and a return to enslavement in his home country. Twenty-seven-year-old ...

Colm Galvin is a Founding Partner at MGK Capital Partners, a boutique investment firm headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Dedicated to identifying and supporting ambitious management teams, the group’s ...

In 1876, a daring escape from an Australian prison colony by six Fenian prisoners was masterminded by the revolutionary and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly. The sailing triumph of the Catalpa and the ...

Thomas Moore was the most popular Irish poet of his day. His famed “Irish Melodies,” with exquisite lyrics by Moore composed to traditional airs, were translated into many languages and won him ...