Hunger – or thirst – may then tempt you towards the Temple Bar district on the River Liffey, a touristy but lively area to ...

LEADING Omagh bombing campaigner Michael Gallagher has revealed that he suffered a stroke while attending the public inquiry into the atrocity, saying he believes the strain of his long campaign for ...

THE Mental Health Music and Arts Festival took place at Kiln Theatre in Kilburn on Tuesday, October 13, where Irish performers and community groups celebrated the arts. The event had singers, ...

THE entire contents of an historic country home in Co. Mayo is set to go under the hammer this month. Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers has been tasked with selling everything inside Newport House, an Irish ...

A MAN has been charged with attempted murder following a stabbing incident in Co. Derry. At around 1.20pm on Tuesday, police received a report that a man, aged in his 30s, had sustained injuries ...

Susan Collins (R.ME), an Irish Catholic Republican senator, is considered a centrist and bipartisan member of the Republican Party, described in Time as one of “the last survivors of a once common ...

In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley there is a gravestone that reads: Here lies the remains of… ...

The descendants of Irish people sold into slavery in the 1600s live in a close-knit community beset by poverty and ill health. During the winter of 1636, a ship bearing a consignment of 61 men and ...

The Celtic cross that the Ladies’ Ancient Order of Hibernians Auxiliary dedicated to Great Hunger victims at the Cohasset Cemetery in Massachusetts. Her other books include: Black Abolitionists In ...

Richie Neal’s extraordinary journey from a working-class neighborhood in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C., and one of the most powerful jobs in American politics as the chairman of the ...

Burke (or Bourke) is one of the most popular Irish names of Norman origin. The name was introduced to Ireland through the person (and presumably extended family) of William Fitzadelm de Burgo, who ...

This exchange in a novel about college sports in the 1920s catches the prejudices that many Americans of the time held toward citizens of Irish-Catholic descent. However, unlike other immigrant groups ...