When a devastating blight struck the potato crops, it unleashed a famine of unimaginable proportions, leaving a profound ...

Irish history has had many famous moments that changed the country and the people forever. Explore the incredible towns and ...

From the earliest African arrivals on Irish shores, Black people have played an important role in shaping Irish society. Although there aren’t very many Black people living in Ireland today, they ...

Thomas Cahill, a multilingual scholar who wrote a surprise 1995 bestseller demonstrating to the world how a small band of Irish monks collected and protected the jewels of Western civilization after ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The “Halfway to Saint Patrick’s Day” weekend celebration, sponsored by Aer Lingus, kicks off Sept. 15 at The Big E. For 23 years, Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula has ...

Growing up as an Irish woman, I often wondered why a Romano-British man became Ireland’s enduring global icon, eclipsing nearly every Irish woman in history. Yet every March, millions worldwide ...

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NPR's Pien Huang speaks with Mary Lou McDonald, president of the Irish political party Sinn Fein, about efforts to smooth trade between the UK and Ireland in the wake of the Brexit deal. While the ...