When the rebellion of 1798 failed, many of The United Irishmen, including Thomas Addis Emmet,…

Unheralded men and women became leaders in the crucible of 1916. A new book by…

Welcome to the 1916 Centenary issue of Irish America. This special issue of Irish America…

The program for the 2016 U.S. commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising launched in…

Though the majority of memorials to the Easter Rising are on the East Coast, the…

November of last year marked the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement,…

Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute has produced a documentary on the Easter Rising that promises to…

Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, the largest political party in the…

The battle for the hearts and minds of the Boston Irish took a sharp turn…

The U.K. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in a Malaysian civil rights case has caused dramatic…

Constance Gore-Booth may have married a Polish Count, but in her heart she was an…

An article written by Alan McCarthy, a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of History…

A new immersive exhibit is slated to open at Dublin’s General Post Office in March…

Éamon de Valera, the dominant political figure of Ireland’s 20th century, was an enigmatic figure…

Eoin MacNeill tried to stop the Rising, but there would have been no Rising without…

The first-ever independent, non-partisan study that models the economic implications of a politically and economically…

This past November, detectives in County Antrim arrested a former British soldier who was involved…

Ireland and the U.S. are now connected through a brand new $300 million transatlantic fiber-optic…

“No New York.  No America.  No Easter Rising.  It’s simple as that.” – Director of…

Irish Ambassador to the U.S. Anne Anderson will become the first female member of the…

The trade union movement in America played a major role in Ireland’s struggle for freedom….

In early December of 2015, the Irish government launched a campaign to bring its emigrants…

Comedian Bill Burr has found inspiration for his next project in his Irish American roots….

Aidan Gillen (The Wire, Game of Thrones) sticks with the historical costume genre in Knights of…

It’s that time of year again in Hollywood. Everyone from critics’ associations to film review…

Armagh native Colin Morgan (above) is currently busy with two Hollywood movies as well as…

Californication actress Natascha McElhone, who uses her Irish mother’s name for professional purposes, is slated…

Fionnula Flanagan has already appeared in one movie slated for an early 2016 release and…

The Irish will be represented at the prestigious annual Sundance Film Festival. In Mammal, star Rachel Griffiths…

He was born Stephen Farrelly in Cabra, Dublin, and raised to speak fluent Irish, but…

Zoe Ireland Drake, the American baby girl born just minutes after landing in Dublin on…

Three Americans received Irish Presidential Distinguished Service Awards on December 3rd last year. Tom Moran…

“…the general awakening that was taking place in Ireland seemed to make us forget everything…

Ninety-seven-year-old Kerry man John “Jack” Mahony was named a Chevalier de La Légion d’Honneur, France’s…

Michael Collins was born into a farming family near Clonakilty in County Cork in 1890….

When Irish exiles needed a refuge, they swarmed to New York and established a hotbed…

Growing up in New York City, there was always a formal photographic portrait of our…

The 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic has been called the most important document in…

The 16 men who were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising included the…

Irish Hunger and Migration: Myth, Memory and Memorialization Edited by Patrick Fitzgerald, Christine Kinealy, and Gerard…

Within sight of the Irish Embassy is Kerry-born sculptor Jerome Connor’s famous memorial to Irish patriot Robert Emmet,…

Within sight of the Irish Embassy is Kerry-born sculptor Jerome Connor’s famous memorial to Irish patriot Robert Emmet,…

Hanged by the British in 1916 for working with Germany and Irish nationalists in planning…

Hanged by the British in 1916 for working with Germany and Irish nationalists in planning…

George Mitchell, the former senate majority leader (D – Maine) and Northern Ireland peace broker,…

As World War I loomed, the U.S. was wracked by political, ethnic, and religious tension. Most Americans…

Today world news is immediate but 100 years ago transmission depended on telegraph cables under…

Three of the men who signed the Proclamation of the Irish Republic had published poetry…

Take a journey around Dublin to relive the events and see the locations of the…

David Neligan, a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, acted as a valuable agent for…

Rick Cluchey 1933 – 2015 On February 2, 1955, the man who would become one…

In mid-2015, a group of fishermen off the coast of Waterford inadvertently picked up what…

Donegal native Dr. William Campbell was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work…