We’re supposed to call him Soldier F, for legal reasons. His real name is widely known among those familiar with the history of Bloody Sunday, the massacre of 13 unarmed protestors in Derry on January ...

Seán MacBride’s career spans the history of independent Ireland. His father was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, when Irish independence was first proclaimed. As a teenager, he fought in ...

On 6 October 1849, emigrants on board the Brig St. John, caught their first sighting of American land as their vessel approached the coast of Cape Cod. The vessel was carrying as many as 140 ...

When Congress ordered the official reading of the Declaration of Independence, Irish-born Charles Thomson performed that duty on July 9, 1776, it was Irish-born Charles Thomson who called upon to ...

“I am proud to be a Maasai woman and a Derry girl,“ Mayor Lilian Seenoi-Barr, the first black person to be mayor anywhere in Northern Ireland, told a cheering crowd in the Guildhall on June 3. Colum ...

Leif Eriksson, the Icelandic sailor-explorer of Norse and Irish descent who is generally credited with being the first European to land on the coast of North America. In this 1893 painting by ...

“I love Southie. There’s no place in the world that has that sense of community,” he adds, displaying the kind of attachment that’s difficult to appreciate for the outsider who knows anything of ...

‘In Banbridge Town in the County Down One morning last July, From a boreen green came a sweet colleen, And she smiled as she passed me by.' What is absolutely, positively true about Greer Garson is ...

Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason talks to Patricia Harty about her pride in her hometown, her career; the hard reality of work on the U.N. Security Council; and her new role as Ireland’s Ambassador to ...

The MacBride Principles, named after Nobel Peace Prize winner Sean MacBride, have recently become major news in the U.S., Britain, and Ireland. The Principles are the latest attempt by the Irish ...

The name Grosse Ile (Big Island) is almost a generic term on the map of North America, it appears in so many places. But there is one island by that name that far outstrips the others for the drama ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending the right to abortion upheld for decades, Niall O’Dowd looks at how abortion became legal in Ireland in this extract from his book A New Ireland ...