THE funeral has taken place for an Irish missionary nun who spent years working in Ethiopia at the height of the famine. Galway native Sister Margaret Coyne died in Southport on August 15 at the age ...

FOR EMMA SMITH, Liverpool, with its undeniable connection to Ireland, is a place she has come to love deeply. “It is the best place in the world as far as I’m concerned.” Now, having worked with the ...

A construction engineer from County Antrim has approached the British Defense Ministry with blueprints of Saddam Hussein’s underground bunkers in Baghdad, saying that he was part of a Swedish company ...

Tall Tales & Murder mixes a Bonnie and Clyde-style adventure of bent cops, kidnapping and underworld fixers with an eighth century tale of monks, Vikings and buried treasure. Based on the Dublin book ...

TWO men have been arrested after gardaí seized suspected drugs worth €2.3m in an attempted handover in Blanchardstown on Friday. The operation was carried out by the Dublin Crime Response Team (DCRT) ...

Nellie Bly’s biographer, Brooke Kroeger, captured the essence of his admirable subject when he wrote: “In the 1880s, she pioneered the development of ‘detective’ or ‘stunt’ journalism, the ...

Burke (or Bourke) is one of the most popular Irish names of Norman origin. The name was introduced to Ireland through the person (and presumably extended family) of William Fitzadelm de Burgo, who ...

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 ...

The Celtic cross that the Ladies’ Ancient Order of Hibernians Auxiliary dedicated to Great Hunger victims at the Cohasset Cemetery in Massachusetts. Her other books include: Black Abolitionists In ...

On October 5, 1968, the Northern Ireland civil rights movement burst onto the international scene when television pictures showed marchers being batoned off the streets of Derry by the police.

St. Ailbe, sometimes known by his anglicized name, St. Elvis, was a 6 th-century saint born in County Tipperary. The name Ailbe is derived from the old Irish words Ail (rock) and beo (alive) since as ...

The newly re-opened American Irish Historical Society provided the backdrop to a beautiful evening that saw three legendary leaders in the Irish community in New York being inducted into the Irish ...