Monday, 31 March 2014

Clip Clop or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

Earlier this month New York’s new mayor Bill de Blasio made headlines by refusing to march in the St Patrick’s Day Parade on 5th Avenue. But as that controversy dies down, a new point of contention with the Irish American community rumbles on.

The Oldest Wolf on Wall Street

The Irish Immigrants who made it big on Wall Street

Sunday, 16 March 2014

St. Patrick, New York, and the Right to March

Is St. Patrick's Day a celebration of Irishness or a private religious occasion?

Monday, 10 March 2014

Irish Noir

Last Summer RTE Radio broadcast a BAI funded series on Irish Crime Fiction. I produced 3 reports for the series; one on Raymond Chandler's connections to Waterford,another with author Colin Batemen, and a third that looked at women's attitudes to the genre. Here they are!