Up to 100,000 protesters opposed to the introduction of water charges brought Dublin to a …
Following the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History, the …
Botanists at Trinity College Dublin have launched a database that documents significant ‘life events’ for nearly …
Liz Cunningham-Purchia, her boyfriend Tim Gannon, his sister Clare, and her husband Jano Cabrera, all Washington, D.C. transplants, …
Liz Cunningham-Purchia, her boyfriend Tim Gannon, his sister Clare, and her husband Jano Cabrera, all Washington, D.C. transplants, …
The Irish musician, singer-songwriter, and composer Gemma Hayes on making music her way.
I’ve never done an …
At the Golden Globes in January, Michael Keaton took home the Best Actor in a …
Maryland governor Martin O’Malley announced late December that he would commute the execution sentence of the last four death …
Maryland governor Martin O’Malley announced late December that he would commute the execution sentence of the last four death …
Growing up, Cathal Armstrong learned that a man’s place was in the kitchen.
From an early age, Cathal …
Is there a better way to take in Ireland’s capital than sitting back with coffee …
The British broadcaster Channel 4 plans to create a sitcom based on a script by …
The Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University recently received over 4,000 books, historical documents and …
1As television dramas become more prestigious, Irish acting talent continues to flock to both cable …
The beloved Irish Repertory Theatre on West 22nd Street in Manhattan has been all but …
A project using smart technology to help the plight of the humble honey bee has …
Middleweight champion John Duddy on hanging up his gloves.
In 2011, John Duddy retired from boxing. …
John McDermott is finally getting his due over a hundred years after he became the …
Khloe Kardashian looked fierce wearing a Theia gown at the Golden Globes E! Entertainment after party. The …
As a work-a-day archival historian, I am generally allergic to historical fiction. But occasionally I …
Award-winning writer Peter Quinn and McGraw Hill financial executive Ted Smyth will receive the Seamus Heaney Award …
My great-great-grandfather John Harrington’s family had probably been in the Beara peninsula of southwest Ireland …
Project Children’s 40th anniversary celebration in Washington D.C. in September brought to a close an …
A community of healers gathers for a retreat on the role of spirituality in healing.
Bere Island …
FICTION
Nora Webster
By Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín’s latest novel Nora Webster finds the gifted Irish author writing …
In a global warming special on RTÉ’s environment series Eco Eye, experts warned about the …
This issue’s Roots column is slightly different from the traditional format. Instead of looking at …
The Shannon Gaels GAA Club in New York is one step closer to building its …
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Edythe Preet gives us the story of Áine, …
It was a damp morning in late February 2008 when the phone rang. Harvard scholar …
In a fitting public tribute to Lady Gregory’s call for the Abbey Theatre “to bring …
Five years after the tragic loss of their mother and sister, the five Murray daughters and their father, …
President Michael D. Higgins’s Christmas New Year message, broadcast from Aras on Uchtairan on December …
What more fascinatingly intimate look into the lives of soldiers of WWI than a glimpse …
Jackie Healy-Rae
1931 – 2014
Following a long illness, Former Fianna Fáil TD for South Kerry Jackie …
The U.S. agreed last year to lift the ban on Irish beef. The ban had …
Author Mary Pat Kelly weaves historical characters such as Maud Gonne, William Butler Yeats, Countess …
There were 30,532 entries for a lottery to experience Winter Solstice 2014 at Newgrange in …
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