Just because you are no longer a practicing Catholic doesn’t mean you can’t go to church and get your throat blessed, right?

As the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, Los Patricios, a group of immigrants, took up arms for Mexico to defend their ...

Those plans represent the San Francisco Irish Great Famine Memorial Plaza, and sometime before St. Patrick’s Day, Uniacke will file them with the building department — to begin, at last ...

A replica of Angels Unawares, the bronze sculpture installed in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square to commemorate the 105th World Day of Refugees and Migrants, will grace the outside of O’Neill Library ...

The Boston Irish Heritage Trail, where visitors can celebrate more than 300 years of Irish history in Boston, is expanding this summer. How to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day all across New England ...

John Mitchel was born on November 3 1815 at Camnish, near Dungiven. He was the eldest surviving son of John Mitchel Snr, the ...

John Mitchel was born on November 3 1815 at Camnish, near Dungiven. He was the eldest surviving son of John Mitchel Snr, the minister of the Dungiven Presbyterian Church, and his wife Mary ...

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...

Padraic X. Scanlan is an associate professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. His latest ...

Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...