Rory O’Connor belongs to an unfortunate category of Irish republicans. Like the Manchester Martyrs, Kevin Barry and Bobby ...

Can the rich and troubled history of our Emerald Isle be recounted in a mere 265 pages? Not if the gargantuan tomes I hauled around as an undergraduate were anything to go by – but James Hawes has ...

LOWELL — One of the highlights of Irish Cultural Week is always the Acre Forum and Anam Cara Awards, and this year’s event celebrated four “soul friends” of Lowell Irish, and attendees got to hear ...

JESSIE Buckley grew up in Kerry without a TV and has managed to become one of the biggest actresses in the world. Everyone knows about the Kerry native’s mega career from first major break ...

A sketch of journalist Gertrude Gaffney by Seán O’Sullivan which appeared in The Capuchin Annual (1939). Reproduced with permission from The Capuchin Annual. If Gertrude Gaffney, once described as ...

The New Ross Historical Society has announced the topic of its next lecture, which will see Dr. Michael Loughman discussing ...

Britain and Ireland, Past and Future,” by Philip Stephens.

“Yeah, I go to the cinema. I go to my local cinema, which is the IMC in Dún Laoghaire,” Jordan, long resident in Dalkey, tells me. “I am normally sitting in a totally empty hall. On a rainy day like ...

Jessie Buckley's win was a historic one as she became the first Irish actress to have ever won an Oscar for Best Actress. We've loved her work on-screen for years now, but away from the limelight, she ...

An historic south Armagh railway station with a troubled past is to be saved from total dereliction and converted into a house. Heritage experts ...

Irish actress Jessie Buckley has made headlines internationally, with the nation bursting with pride over her Best Actress ...

IN Mountjoy Jail, on 8 December 1922, during the height of the Irish Civil War, four men were executed in what was to be a highly controversial episode in modern Irish history.