Cahir O'Doherty

Jan 17, 2025 | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

Last summer, outside the famed Boboli Gardens in Florence, an elderly attendant examined my entrance ticket, read my name, and immediately launched into a insightful meditation on the Nine Years War. I was astonished, but I probably shouldn't have been. It turned out he was a historian with a lifelong interest in Irish history and English colonialism. “You have a famous name,” he told me.

Jan 16, 2025 | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

Ireland's love of ABBA is legendary and ever growing, so what's behind this enduring intergenerational affection for the Swedish supergroup? Back in the 2010s, a friend of mine from Spain asked me why the hell ABBA are still being played in Ireland. “They're on the radio every day like it's the late 1970s,” he groused.

Jan 16, 2025 | flipboard.com | Cahir O'Doherty

2 hours agoSweden begins construction of massive underground nuclear vault that will last 100,000 yearsSweden has broken ground on its ambitious $11 billion nuclear waste repository, where highly radioactive material will rest in an underground maze of …12 hours agoRumour: Zeidane Inoussa Named as Celtic TargetCeltic are reportedly interested in signing Swedish under-21 international Zeidane Inoussa. The talented left winger, currently plying his trade with …

Nov 21, 2024 | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

If the Irish had created Thanksgiving it would have been called Giving Out Day. We’re much better at complaining than giving thanks usually, but if there’s one thing we know how to do well it’s cook for a cold climate. Thanksgiving isn’t an Irish holiday. When you first arrive here as a wide-eyed immigrant you quickly come to see it as the most Yankee event on the calendar, even more so than Memorial Day or the fireworks and flag-waving of the Fourth of July.

Nov 14, 2024 | irishcentral.com | Cahir O'Doherty

Unless you were there, you'll never know the terror – and the unexpected exhilaration – of the emerging Troubles in Belfast in the early 1970s - the attacks, the resistance, and the hard choices circumstances forced you to make between pacifism and warfare. Few dramas tell that story with the energy and precision of “Say Nothing,” the accomplished new drama series by "Derry Girls" director Michael Lennox which premieres on Hulu on Thursday, November 14.