Explorer and historian Tim Severin celebrated 40 years since he embarked on an epic 4,500…

ABC’s John Donvan captures the challenges, activism and inspiration of living with autism.  ℘℘℘ Robert…

When the fantasy film A Monster Calls (with Liam Neeson in a voice role) opens…

 The Irish-born biologist and parasitologist William Cecil Campbell, who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize…

One of the country’s top transplant researchers is Dr. Barbara Murphy, the Dublin-born chair of…

Billy McComiskey, who recently received a National Heritage Fellowship – the nation’s highest honor in…

Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ireland in June for a six-day trip through counties…

In June, the United Kingdom officially passed the referendum to end its membership with the…

Galway native Billy Lawless, Sr., who has lived in Chicago since 1998, has been appointed…

Ireland’s first undersea observatory was launched in June as part of an event for the…

The first ever All-Ireland sand sculpting competition will take place in August at the 30th…

When I was a kid my father would take us for drives to County Clare,…

One family’s journey from addiction to recovery. Casey Duffy will not be mistaken for anything…

The 2016 Irish America Healthcare and Life Sciences 50 list celebrates Irish innovators who are leading…

Mountaineer Colin O’Brady talks breaking two world records, keeping children active, and shows just how…

Recent figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Ireland’s specialist agency for the surveillance of…

As of June 17th, Ireland has officially been connected to the internet for 25 years….

Ireland’s current agricultural practices are unsustainable, say N.G.O. coalitions Stop Climate Chaos and the Environmental…

Irish woman Nikki Bradley, a courageous survivor of a rare form of bone cancer known…

Another impressive Irish team is being assembled for Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan’s next film….

“I know it’s just my Irish resentment, but I don’t like being looked down on.”…

The 28th annual Galway Film Fleadh, held in July, featured a diverse array of Irish…

For two decades now, playwright Martin McDonagh has been dazzling theater and movie audiences with…

First there was 2013’s Saving Mr. Banks, starring Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell, and Emma Thompson….

If it worked for Liam Neeson, maybe it can work for Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan is…

Martin Scorsese’s next foray into ethnic warfare is quite simple, at least to judge from…

Fans of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland soccer teams were commended by the…

It worked for Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton may have had this in mind when she…

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presented its annual Gold Medal in the Arts…

Art, literature, politics and history come together once again this September at the Kennedy Summer…

Irish universities are leading the way in breakthrough medical science.  ℘℘℘ Testing Breakthroughs at QUB…

There’s no way for John Donvan to put it gently when it comes to Ruth…

A groundbreaking new melanoma treatment is being rolled out to patients in the U.K., but…

Irish American placekicker Patrick Murray has been signed by the Cleveland Browns for the coming…

An Irish American New York University student made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery in July when she…

So many cops are married to nurses,” the great novelist and screenwriter Richard Price once…

Mary Holt Moore – a prominent leader in New York’s Irish American community and only…

Back in July, on a hot afternoon at Kennedy International Airport in Queens, a truck…

Books of Irish and Irish American interest. ℘℘℘ FICTION Pond By Claire-Louise Bennett English writer…

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Melissa McCarthy’s Family Tree. Easily one of the most…

Rory McIlroy, who was chosen to represent Ireland in Brazil’s 2016 Olympic games, announced in…

The story behind the Georgian houses in Dublin City and why no two adjacent doors…

Ireland’s shrinking bee population is receiving a helping hand from the National Biodiversity Plan, an initiative…

Reek Sunday, the last Sunday in July, when pilgrims climb Ireland’s holiest mountain, Croagh Patrick went ahead…

Five years ago this summer, a dream came true – but not quite the way…

Donald Trump and Mike Pence have more in common than a desire to win election…

Leland Bardwell 1922 – 2016 Leland Bardwell, an Irish poet and novelist, died in June…

Dr. Patrick Kelly received an Alumni Honors Award from University College Dublin in June for…

Raised in London with Irish and Scottish roots, Emily O’Hare made a name for herself…

The personal effects of organized crime-boss James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger, Jr. were offered up for…

Healer, Herbalist, Clairvoyant… or Witch? Biddy Early was a true “alpha female” writes Rosemary Rogers in…