‘Hard Neighbors’ Review: Young America’s Scotch-Irish Border Clans
In the woodland communities that once marked the frontier of the United States, settlers from Scotland and Northern Ireland ...
Emporia Gazette10h
Emporia Celebrates St. Patrick's Day
Hundreds of spectators lined Commercial St. in downtown Emporia on Saturday for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, a ...
Catholic Star Herald9d
Bishop honors Irish heritage, contributions
Parishioner Patrick Ward, and his wife, Lizann, join others in the pews in applauding Bishop Dennis Sullivan’s commitment to ...
Irish America8d
Matriarch of Chicago Bears Dies at 102
Virginia Halas McCaskey, principal owner of the Chicago Bears and daughter of late NFL pioneer George S. Halas, died Feb. 6 ...
Wall Street Journal8d
‘Hard Neighbors’ Review: Young America’s Scotch-Irish Border Clans
Rather than instruments of democracy, these bodies now reflected “a Mac-ocracy by which I mean a banditti of low Scotch-Irish whose names generally begin with Mac—and who are either the sons ...