"Nine Irish Lives," edited by Mark Bailey, is the February 2025 selection for the IrishCentral Book Club. Each month, we will ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Humanitarian workers in hazmat suits and teenagers in flip-flops and dirty masks tended to the dead amid the overwhelming ... has raised fears of a broader war between DRC and Rwanda and their ...

Germany is reviewing its civil defence, with the focus on preparing air raid shelters for its population. The Irish public are blissfully unaware that the Third World War has already begun ...

“This year we had 16 debut books ... of the Great Irish Famine, the Atlas of the Irish Revolution, and the most recent publication in this series, the Atlas of the Irish Civil War.

Anthony Mackie talks about how he and Harrison Ford bonded over “the weirdest sh*t” shooting Captain America: Brave New World ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict the fight for civil rights.

Rajan Philips Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre ...

In “Widows’ Peak,” set in a small Irish town in the wake of WWI, she played a dowager who rules over a large number of women made widows by the recent war. As a treat for her grandchildren ...

Israeli air strikes continued in Gaza, with the civil defence agency saying 116 Palestinians ... Majida Al Askri said 32 of her relatives have died since the war in Gaza began.