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…

It was a damp morning in late February 2008 when the phone rang. Harvard scholar…

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,…

The Irish musician, singer-songwriter, and composer Gemma Hayes on making music her way. I’ve never done…

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,…

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The Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University recently received over 4,000 books, historical documents and…

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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…

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…

John Harrington My great-great-grandfather John Harrington’s family had probably been in…

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…

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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,…

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…

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…