Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. There’s something poetic about the fact that it’s the Irish who are the first to lose […] ...

Failure of the potato crop evoked horrific memories for some who had lived through the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s ...

In 1995, Mullan invited White Deer to Ireland to lead the Famine Walk, and in 1997, on the 150th anniversary of the Choctaw gift, the Irish government commissioned him to paint a symbolic ...

Opened by a visionary woman back in 1892, Foxford in Co Mayo is still to this day carrying on Irish traditions – and bringing them into the present. Foxford has been a part of our national ...

As the legend is told from Reed Hastings himself, a $40 late fee from Blockbuster for renting Apollo 13 compelled him to ...

Ballymena in Co Antrim has descended into chaos with violent clashes between groups of protesters and police over an alleged ...

W riting from the safety of exile in eastern Tennessee, in the late 1850s the fiery Irish nationalist John Mitchel published a series of articles in his proslavery newspaper the Southern Citizen.In ...

All the same, he never once visited Ireland during the famine years. By 1847—“Black ‘47,” as the Irish call it—starvation was at its worst. In February, ...

During the Irish potato famine from 1845 to 1852, ... In the U.S., people who don’t wear the color green on St. Patrick’s Day are pinched. Green is the color of St. Patrick’s Day, but why?

The colour green became a symbol of sympathy with Irish independence. However, today, azure blue - or rather, St. Patrick’s blue - remains Ireland's official heraldic colour. 3.

Two farmers are regrowing the Irish linen industry while restoring wildlife, reconnecting communities, and regenerating food systems. Whether we’re talking about textiles or vegetables, collaboration ...