Time and Tide is a story that will remain in your head long after you have left Nell alone in her kitchen.⬥ Editor’s Note: ...

Poet, musician, singer, wit, polemicist, journalist, biographer and letter-writer, Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 – February 25,1852) was one of the most brilliant figures of the Regency as well as the ...

The visa program, which in 1991 was made law due to the push of former Congressman Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.), and Senator ...

The President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins paid tribute to the First Nations of Canada and Native Americans for their contributions to Irish Famine relief in 1847 at the National Famine Commemoration ...

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 ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending the right to abortion upheld for decades, Niall O’Dowd looks at how abortion became legal in Ireland in this extract from his book A New Ireland ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Drinking in Ireland is not simply a convivial pastime, it is a ritualistic alternative to real life, a spiritual placebo, a fumble for eternity, a longing for heaven, a thirst for return to the ...