Collecting My Thoughts

I'm not upset about Rosie O'Donnell moving to Ireland. So many people are trying to get into the U.S.A. that will make just one fewe...

March is Irish American Heritage Month. My Irish beat the crowd and came to British America before the revolution, and no one was Catholic. ...

Democrats you can salute your queen of ghouls--celebrating the sheer joy of Ireland aborting the innocent and forcing Catholic hospitals, do...

“During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West In...

We have travelled outside the U.S.—Ireland, Russia, Italy, Finland, Estonia, Germany, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel (and briefly Ca...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKwqj5QViQ#t=295   "Those most important words, I do ya, Hallelujah."

The best schools in Ireland are historically Catholic, and their Constitution supports "choice" by also funding Protestant schools...

I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through the belief in the threeness, Through confession of the on...

Probably a good thing he flew off to Moneygall --things are pretty hot here at home. Pamela Geller summarizes some of the outrage in this pi...

When we were in Ireland in 2007, we visited the Waterford factory and watched the incredibly skilled glass blowers, visited the museum (of d...

A The New Republic Jonathan Chait notes in " The case against awards " that: "A recent statistical analysis by Robert T. Hodg...

March will be a 2-fer for me March is Women's History Month and Irish Heritage Month in the United States. According to the U.S. Census ...

Irish immigration When we were in Ireland in September we noticed 1) the booming economy, and 2) the booming immigration. We visited a Cath...

4211 First painting from the last trip There will be a few touch ups (to make the distance a bit more hazy), but this is my husband's f...

4147 Do you think we have enough photos? Would you believe we've actually winnowed these down to our favorites? We viewed the disk sev...

Thursday Thirteen A week ago we returned from a fabulous trip to Ireland, the ancestral home of about 45 million North Americans. Here's...

The lost hat I was talking to my daughter after supper tonight to wish her Happy Anniversary (14th). She had just returned from a medical c...

Our Ireland Trip from U-Z United Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory : Couldn't figure out a "U" entry until I saw that the St. Cani...

Our Ireland Trip from S-T Sanachi: Irish story telling with singing was our entertainment Saturday evening September 15 at Brod Tullaroan....

Our Ireland Trip from Q-R Quebec : The Dunbrody, (we visited a replica of this 3 masted cargo ship), was commissioned in Quebec in 1845 and...