The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...

Charles Trevelyan was not a man who suffered overly from self-doubt. At the height of the Great Irish Famine in 1847, however ...

The enthusiastically received Irish-language film shows how film can cut through the noise of history, politics and culture ...

A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.

Kneecap is an Irish hip-hop group touring in several states around Australia this week. While the trio is drawing interest ...