The “horrors, genocide and famine in Gaza” cannot be “forgotten”, Ireland’s deputy premier has said, as he welcomed the ...

On Sunday, May 18, the Gaelic American Club in Fairfield, Connecticut, hosted the 2nd Annual Irish Famine Commemoration Day Ceremony, an event held in conjunction with Ireland's Great Hunger Museum of ...

New research from Queen’s Business School and Edinburgh Business School has examined the impact of the Great Irish Famine (1845-1852) on human height. The research found that in the regions hardest ...

Among the new wave of boats is the Milad – part of the Thousand Madleen flotilla – where Irish author Naoise Dolan said she ...

Irish poet Luke Morgan read select poems and discussed their origin, significance and greater themes at an event hosted by ...

Dozens of Irish citizens are on board the flotilla, all of whom are intent on delivering food and medicine to the wartorn ...

Many are probably aware of the Irish origins of the creator of Dracula, the 1897 novel that codified vampirism and profoundly influenced the horror genre. Bram Stoker was born in Dublin and attended ...

In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the Promised Land. Instead, when she went to North America via Liverpool, she ...

The figures by the River Liffey in Dublin are more clothes than flesh. The Famine Memorial, created by Rowan Gillespie, holds ...

Ireland’s ancient language and folklore are having a renaissance. For the Celtic-curious, Magan, who died last week, is a ...