The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage. And nowhere is that more so than in ...

St. Patrick may be Ireland’s most famous saint, but a new biography for young readers sheds light on another great Irish holy ...

Ireland elevates St. Brigid alongside St. Patrick, reclaiming its forgotten female saint and marking a dramatic shift from ...

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...

While Catholic weddings in Ireland have dropped over the past three decades, New Age marriages are rapidly gaining in ...

Hundreds stopped to receive ashes during Bishop Cullinan’s six-hour mission — a sign that despite cultural shifts, the ...

Armagh City, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was chosen by St Patrick as the site of his first stone church in 445AD ...

ST Patrick’s Day festivities started early around the global with major cities going green ahead of Ireland’s big parade in ...

Some 10 years later, children from St. Michael’s Parish, whose parents were ill or had died from deadly epidemics, were ...

The holiday has been celebrated in Ireland for over a thousand years in observance of Saint Patrick, who introduced ...

Round towers were designed primarily as bell-towers and were attached to some of the most prestigious churches in Ireland ...

A new property on the market off the Shankill Road in Belfast has sparked significant interest - and the only limit on what ...