Item category 1: Donegal Studies

Erin O'Connor has spent her life fighting - first to survive, then to escape, and finally to take back what was stolen from her. After enduring brutal years in prison and forced fights in the Middle East, she returns to Ireland, a woman hardened by violence and betrayal. But home is not the sanct...

Tom Walsh was a carpenter from Tipperary who bought the Hope Diamond for his daughter...John Mackay built a cathedral in Sacramento for his good friend Patrick Manogue.....William Grace was the first Irish person elected mayor of New York......Nellie Cashman saved a group of prospectors from star...

From the inception of the National Health Service in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in British hospitals. By the 1960s approximately 30,000 Irish-born nurses were working across the NHS, constituting around 12% of all nursing staff. Based on 45 inte...

Ocht scéal nuascríofa spreagtha ag an scéal clasaiceach 'Caisleáin Óir' ó pheann Shéamuis Uí Ghrianna a foilsíodh céad bliain ó shin. Comhthogra a bhí anseo le Meitheal Pleanála Teanga an Iarthuaiscirt

Bicentenary of St Crone's Church.

In the Prohibition era, the speakeasies of New York City provide some much-needed respite, particularly for the likes of Michael Malloy, an isolated Irish immigrant. But times are tough and for an unlikely group of associates - a bar owner, an undertaker, a greengrocer, a cabbie and a local gangs...

Northern Ireland, 1975. Violence has erupted on the streets of Belfast. After years as a sleepy guerilla army, the IRA is clashing with Loyalist gangs and heavily armed British soldiers. But the Troubles have spilled beyond the small island: An ocean away, in the heart of Philadelphia's Irish enc...