Overlooked in the chaotic situation that unfolded in recent days, Irish citizens made history as they engaged in violent rioting while completely sober for the first time ever.
Published: Saturday, February 3rd, 2024 @ 7:44 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Mrs. Iris Louise Hodges Blankenship, age 95, a former resident of Washington, NC died Wednesday August 9, 2023, at East Carolina Health Hospital in Tarboro.
Published: Thursday, August 10th, 2023 @ 9:38 am
By: Announcements
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Despite claims from conservative media pundits that President Joe Biden's tour of Ireland was a disaster due to several verbal gaffes and nonsensical statements, a group of intoxicated Irishmen released a statement saying they were able to understand every word of what Biden said.
Published: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 4:46 am
By: Babylon Bee
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President Joe Biden made a series of cringeworthy jokes at the expense of Irish people at a St. Patrick’s Day event Friday.
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 1:57 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., might be the only white boy from East Wilmington, as he is wont to say, but Ol’ Diamond Joe is much more than that. By his own account, he is the most Polish-Jewish-Black-Puerto Rican-Greek-Irish-Catholic president that we have ever had.
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 3:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A young man in Ireland was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for defending himself and his family from a drunk intruder who attacked him in his own home.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 7:51 am
By: Daily Wire
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Satirist P. J. O’Rourke, a long-time figure in the conservative movement and the author of over 20 books, has died. He was 74.
Published: Monday, March 28th, 2022 @ 2:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 8:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Friday, February 18th, 2022 @ 10:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I happened upon an early recording of Iris Dement's "Our Town" from the early 1990's, a song that played a large part in classic TV series Northern Exposure's swan song. That memorable last TV show signing off this beautiful classic really stuck with me.
Published: Wednesday, December 29th, 2021 @ 1:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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My latest research brief looks at the death of a local Irish pub. What happened to Trali Irish Pub in Morrisville is what is happening all across North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 6:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Author Lee Child (“Jack Reacher”) will now seek Irish citizenship over the Brexit fallout.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 10:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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I am in Elizabeth City on this fair morning- the day that belongs to anyone with even a bit of Irish blood in their veins has dawned with birds singing.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2017 @ 6:37 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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I have felt glad all day today. Not a thing out of the ordinary, occurred.
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2017 @ 1:23 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The Mockingbird has sung his morning hymn, and the sun has risen over the barn, making the old shabby thing look holy.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2017 @ 7:17 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The fact is that music has always been a major part of my family since I was born. My dad was a self taught musician. We always had instruments around the house.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 @ 8:04 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Savannah, and all of Georgia, was born from the imagination of a group of philanthropic trustees, led by British General James Oglethorpe, to provide a fresh start for debtors and the Irish.
Published: Saturday, December 31st, 2016 @ 10:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A younger brother's repressed memory rises up after seeing a picture of two kids boxing.
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2016 @ 7:43 am
By: Bobby Tony
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We celebrate specific wars for 50 years afterward: until most of the veterans have passed on. West Point students skim over the battles and weapons of past wars but concentrate on the new drones and laser killing machines available today.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2016 @ 4:37 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Have you ever heard anyone say "Don't tell anybody this but....."
Published: Sunday, February 14th, 2016 @ 3:50 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I cannot stop thinking about college campuses and freedom of speech or lack thereof, and for the first time in my writing life, I feel compelled to take on a controversial topic.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:06 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Symbols will offend some but labels really irritate the hell out of others
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 5:50 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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It takes more than money to be rich.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 4:20 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Iris Irene Cutler Davenport, age 83, a resident of NC 92 E., Washington, NC passed away Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at her home.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 11:39 am
By: Announcements
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Wilma Iris Lassetter Hornsby, 89, died peacefully at Tennova Residential Hospice in Knoxville, TN, on Saturday, November 10, 2012. She has returned to her hometown of Cullman, AL, for burial
Published: Friday, November 16th, 2012 @ 3:17 pm
By: Announcements
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espite the traditional praise of "melting pots," "big tents" and "rainbow coalitions" the strategy behind our country's election process is to activate the ethnic, racial and social differences that exist among its people.
Published: Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 @ 10:15 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Mrs. Iris Alice Norman Spear, 66, a resident of 105 Grace Court, Chocowinity, died Thursday, March 22, 2012, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2012 @ 12:26 am
By: Announcements
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Tybee Island is a small sandy oasis, in the vast savannah of salt marsh, in the east Georgia lowlands at the mouth of the Savannah River.
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2010 @ 11:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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