THE family of Irish Oscar contender Jessie Buckley are on route to Los Angeles to attend this weekend’s Academy Awards ceremony. Aer Lingus has flown the actor’s parents Marina and Tim Buckley and her ...

A BOY who died in a collision in Belfast has been named. Mason Keilhauer was struck by a car on the Shankhill Road at around 7.25pm on March 7. The 11-year-old, from the Shankhill area, was taken to ...

TWO men have been arrested after a car was stolen from a property in Co. Antrim. Officers were called after a white VW Tiguan was stolen from the drive of a home in Newtownabbey on the evening of ...

A WOMAN has died and a man is in a critical condition following a collision in Co. Sligo in the early hours of yesterday morning. The single vehicle incident happened on the N15 at Grellagh in ...

Daniel O’Connell is remembered as the Liberator of Irish Catholics, but he also played a significant role in the movement to end slavery. On 23 May 2011, President Obama made an historic visit to the ...

The Comstock Lode in Nevada, uncovered in 1859 by two Irish laborers, ultimately produced more than $500 million worth of silver, a large share of which went to the Irish-American “Big Four” – James ...

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 ...

As the thousandth anniversary of the Viking discovery of America will soon be celebrated in the year 2000, Thomas J. Martin and Donald V. Mehus examine the role that the Irish, with their own long ...

Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, talks to Patricia Harty. Thomas Cahill was born one of six children to a middle-class Irish family in the Bronx. He grew up in Queens, New ...

In 1876, a daring escape from an Australian prison colony by six Fenian prisoners was masterminded by the revolutionary and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly. The sailing triumph of the Catalpa and the ...

A visit to the McCord Museum helps uncover the history of two of Montreal’s historic Irish neighborhoods. In this tale of two Irish neighborhoods, leafy and modest Point St. Charles is in some ways ...

The Choctaw “Trail of Tears,” tribe raised money for Irish Hunger relief. Visiting New York in 1989, Don Mullan, the then-director of Action From Ireland (AFrI), a Dublin-based human rights ...