The President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins paid tribute to the First Nations of Canada and Native Americans for their ...

Poet, musician, singer, wit, polemicist, journalist, biographer and letter-writer, Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 – February 25,1852) was one of the most brilliant figures of the Regency as well as the ...

One warm summer evening last year, I picked up a first edition of The Country Girl from the bookshelf in a house where I was staying and I did not leave my place by the window until I had read it from ...

The Irish in Canada have won a major victory over the Canadian Government on how the national historic site at Grosse Ile should be developed. The small island in the St. Lawrence River, 48 kilometers ...

It’s been 15 years since the Hunger Strikes in Ireland left ten men dead and changed the course of Northern Irish politics. Now a new movie gives voice to the suffering of the mothers whose sons died ...

The O’Sullivan Clan of Munster has produced fine military leaders, sporting heroes, politicians, movie stars, songwriters, and even a space walker, as the following history of one of the most popular ...

ONE of the two teenagers who died after getting into difficulty in the sea in Co. Donegal last week has been described as ‘a true ambassador of hope’. Emmanuel Familola, 16, died in the tragedy in ...

TAOISEACH Michel Martin has offered his condolences to the family of a garda who lost his life i… News from Ireland and happenings in Irish America..

THE family of a man who was killed in a collision in Greater Manchester this month have paid an e… Remembering some of the great Irish Americans who have passed..

POLICE have named two men who died in separate road traffic collisions on Friday as Paddy McDonald and Philip Taylor. Mr McDonald, 62, was riding a bicycle when it was involved in a collision with a ...

Nestled in the foothills of the San Ramon Valley near San Francisco, a concrete block residence sits prominently amidst the landscape. At one time the site provided this country’s only Nobel ...

Hard to believe that it’s already a year since the days of Morrison Madness, when tens of thousands of Irish (as well as people of other nationalities) mailed over 14 million applications for the ...