During the socially turbulent and unusually sweltering summer of 1919, the 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald reworked "This Side of Paradise", the novel that turned him into an overnight sensation and ...

For Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, a historian who is the current Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College, the impact of the Irish Revolution (1916-1923)—like other sweeping historical ...

During the year of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Paul Meany reflects on how the American Declaration ...

The Irish revolution, however you choose to define it, was the founding event in modern Irish history. Even with the passage of a century, it continues to cast its glow across our land and, of course, ...

It conjures the anxiety of forcing the tragic narratives owned by others to conform to the pattern of a separate subjective language. But it also carries with it the weight of that age-old question: ...

After the failed insurrection of 1916, revolutionary Ireland reorganized and devised new tactics that would eventually lead to the country's independence. Such important figures as Michael Collins and ...

Mark journeys to Dublin Bay, exploring the deeper meaning behind the ballads he’s sung for years. Mark travels to Dublin Bay, seeking a deeper meaning behind the Irish ballads he’s sung for years, and ...