RTÉ has confirmed that The Traitors Ireland, the highly anticipated Irish version of the reality competition series, will officially premiere on Sunday, 31 August. The series will be hosted by Siobhán ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The legacy of the statesman known as “The Liberator”, is explored over a two-day ‘school’ in his home place in Kerry. Cahersiveen, County Kerry. Population, 1041: Famous because it is the furthest ...

Women rarely have their faces on currency. Except, of course, for the recently departed Queen Elizabeth II who was on the currency of Great Britain and her colonies for over 70 years and, until ...

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 ...

John Footman embodied diaspora, which means scattered population. Today, there are seven generations of Footman in this Irish-Indian family residing in India, Australia, North America, and England.

As chairman, president and CEO of Merck &Co., Inc., the largest drug company in the world, Raymond Gilmartin takes seriously his responsibility, not just to the bottom line, but to ethical care. Case ...