A new project will look at the history of Dublin's Temple Hill and Bird's Nest children's homes through interviews with ...

“The Oul’ McMahons’ Spade”, a 1973 epic by Matt Duggan, also features in McKeagney’s book, although its last verse implies ...

That makes Northern Ireland, its territory and residents, part of that alliance. Ireland is not neutral by virtue of its ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody ...

As the neighboring United Kingdom advances a bill to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives, Ireland’s Protestant and Catholic leaders have grown more concerned about the issue and the ...

While there is a slight increase in support for Irish unity, overall, the people of Northern Ireland do not support Irish ...

"We believed that true unity among all Irish people, Protestant and Catholic, nationalist and unionist, was a unity of the heart not merely of the soil." King's widow, Coretta, praised Hume when ...

Eventually in 1603 Elizabeth died and James was offered the throne. The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland. Although promising to return to ...