(THE CONVERSATION) St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and ... persuaded the Catholic Church to make March 17 a feast day for St. Patrick.

The result was a ranked list of 100 works of fiction, with Milkman by Anna Burns (2018) decided as the best Irish book of the 21st ... abuse by the Catholic Church was not far behind in fourth ...

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and ... persuaded the Catholic Church to make March 17 a feast day for St. Patrick. Back then, feast ...

We are already more than halfway through Irish American heritage month, so if you are still searching for some luck this ...

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

I am based in An Cultúrlann, an old Presbyterian church now purposed as an Irish Language centre in Belfast. I was delighted to have Ag Buzzáil sa Ghairdín chosen for World Book Day this year ...

This is the definitive reading list for Irish Americans on Book Lovers' Day ... expressed by social justice activism that is not the church of his father. “The Last Hurrah,” by Edwin ...

St. Patrick's Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers.

The book de Beaumont produced in 1839 ... pressure of too many laborers looking for too little work. Militant Irish nationalism would follow Jane Wilde in seeing the famine as mass murder ...

The publication in the US newspaper led to readers suggesting that his Rambles be published in book ... back in Ireland to devote himself and his pen to the cause of Irish nationalism, though ...

Part of a series of articles exploring the role of the left in the great political upheaval in Northern Ireland in 1968-69, written in response to John McAnulty’s polemic ( Solidarity 717) In January ...