Cormac MacConnell
Cormac MacConnell is a veteran writer and journalist. His much loved column, about his life in County Clare and observations about Irish life, has appeared in the Irish Voice for close to 30 years.
Latest Stories
Great weather in Ireland - even better music, dancing and craic
Irish folklore would have it that the butterfly brings beautiful weather
Top tips from a local for your vacation in rural Ireland
Silly season, fake news and my Donald and Hillary whirligigs
An Irish ballad of leaving and endings
My time as a smuggler on the Northern Ireland border
Visiting Ireland? An Irishman’s advice on the “dos and don'ts”
O’Dowds to O’Connells - Irish certainly have a way with names
All about visitor’s Irish clan names in Spiddal, Connemara
Most read
- 1 Photos of Ireland: Vote for your favorite in My Irish Cousin's photo competition!
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara