THE Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has announced the nominees for its annual Rising Star Award. Actors Louisa Harland and Carolyn Bracken and directors Brendan Canty and Myrid Carten are all ...

Seán MacBride’s career spans the history of independent Ireland. His father was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, when Irish independence was first proclaimed. As a teenager, he fought in ...

Daniel O’Connell is remembered as the Liberator of Irish Catholics, but he also played a significant role in the movement to end slavery. On 23 May 2011, President Obama made an historic visit to the ...

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 ...

Editor’s Introduction: The MacBride Principles aimed to secure the elimination of religious or anti-Catholic discrimination in the hiring process or employment practices of U.S. corporations with ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending the right to abortion upheld for decades, Niall O’Dowd looks at how abortion became legal in Ireland in this extract from his book A New Ireland ...

Thomas Moore was the most popular Irish poet of his day. His famed “Irish Melodies,” with exquisite lyrics by Moore composed to traditional airs, were translated into many languages and won him ...

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 ...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey talks with U.S. Marine Corps Drill Instructors at the 4th Recruit Training Battalion, Parris Island, S.C., on March 21,2013. Photo . U.S.

The name Grosse Ile (Big Island) is almost a generic term on the map of North America, it appears in so many places. But there is one island by that name that far outstrips the others for the drama ...

A visit to the McCord Museum helps uncover the history of two of Montreal’s historic Irish neighborhoods. In this tale of two Irish neighborhoods, leafy and modest Point St. Charles is in some ways ...

The O’Briens are one of the great Gaelic families of Ireland, and were the rulers of the ancient kingdom of Thomond, which takes in much of the modern county Clare and also the adjacent parts of ...