The tragic story of the Irish “mud crawlers” who fled to Wales during the Famine. During the 1840s a great number of Irish, fleeing the Famine, began arriving in the town of Newport, in southeast ...

A new program, Beyond the Irish Question, invites people of Irish descent to explore the inherited history and emotion that ...

Over half a million Irish historical records have now been recovered and digitized as part of a program to restore several ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three tourists in Dublin city centre, Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin 1, Ireland. From the earliest African arrivals on Irish shores, ...

Behind the shamrocks and gold-tipped rainbows, Ireland is packed with surprises—both in its history and in the ways it has shaped culture far beyond its shores. Sarah Erdman The Dingle Peninsula tells ...

Land reasserts the Gaelic language and culture in opposition to the culture of the British colonisers, but relies on simplistic characterisations.

Growing up as an Irish woman, I often wondered why a Romano-British man became Ireland’s enduring global icon, eclipsing nearly every Irish woman in history. Yet every March, millions worldwide ...