Addie and I both believed that Jameson was “Catholic”—that is, aligned with Irish independence in the struggle against British colonialism. We’d absorbed this idea by osmosis during our heavily Irish ...

How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great Hunger and how "take the soup" became etched in Ireland's psyche. As we ...

When Donald Trump invoked the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members this weekend, I had only one association with the law: when the Federalists originally passed it ...

“St. Patrick” is symbolic in the United States of Irish Roman Catholicism and all it stands for. But the Protestants of Ireland, usually called “Scotch Irish,” take a very different view.

The death of John Hemingway, the last of The Few who fought in the Battle of Britain, has brought a reminder of the southern ...

In the centuries after the Reformation, Liverpool mostly avoided the religious disputes that characterised other parts of Britain. With people of various faiths working alongside each other on ships ...

Five lads from Northern Ireland blend their voices for the perfect Irish sound. Their show is a testament to unity after the ...

Irish nationalist groups active in the U.S. – the Fenians, Clan na Gael and, later, Irish Northern Aid – participated in these American St. Patrick’s Day parades, proudly wearing green to demonstrate ...

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.