ALL across Ireland, in fields, on hillsides and beside ancient ruins, lie sites that many pass every day without ever knowing their story. These places are called cillíní, and they carry immense ...

A MAN has been sentenced for drugs-related offences following an investigation into criminality linked to the New IRA. Ian Cotter from west Belfast was sentenced to a two-month custodial sentence, ...

THE Washington Ireland Program (WIP) class of 2026 was announced this week. US Congressman Tim Kennedy made the announcement during a special event held at the University of Notre Dame’s office in ...

TRIBUTES have been paid following the death of one of Ireland’s best-known sports presenters Michael Lyster. Mr Lyster died yesterday morning (March 23) at the age of 71, it was confirmed in a ...

JOHN O’Donoghue is an author across several disciplines — poetry, short stories, novels. His latest collection The Servants and Other Strange Stories was published on March 19. Ms O’Donoghue has a PhD ...

Sean Downes is an attorney based in Manhattan. Since 1985, he has been representing individuals who have sustained serious injuries in accidents, and has donated considerable time representing clients ...

Seán MacBride’s career spans the history of independent Ireland. His father was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, when Irish independence was first proclaimed. As a teenager, he fought in ...

This exchange in a novel about college sports in the 1920s catches the prejudices that many Americans of the time held toward citizens of Irish-Catholic descent. However, unlike other immigrant groups ...

The descendants of Irish people sold into slavery in the 1600s live in a close-knit community beset by poverty and ill health. During the winter of 1636, a ship bearing a consignment of 61 men and ...

“Mr. Hume says Northern Ireland is too complicated to reduce to a Yes/No proposition,” Ted Smyth said to me. Fall 1976. I’m an Associate Producer at Good Morning America and Ted’s the Press Secretary ...

The name Grosse Ile (Big Island) is almost a generic term on the map of North America, it appears in so many places. But there is one island by that name that far outstrips the others for the drama ...

Editor’s Introduction: The MacBride Principles aimed to secure the elimination of religious or anti-Catholic discrimination in the hiring process or employment practices of U.S. corporations with ...