A presentation by Robin Moyer on Laconia’s Irish heritage will be presented on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the ...

At the height of An Gorta Mór (the Great Hunger) of 1845-1852, a scheme was devised by the then British Secretary to the Colonies, Earl Grey, to send Irish orphan girls to Australia. The aims: provide ...

For the Church’s first seven centuries, penance could be received no more than once in a lifetime. That policy dated back to the time of St. Peter. The New Testament tells us... - Published on August ...

Mary ‘May’ McGee, who died this week at the age of 81, became a reluctant icon of Irish feminism when she and her husband ...

What's a portrait of Frederick Douglass doing hanging in an Irish-themed pub in Washington, D.C.? To get to the answer, Parker and Gene dive deep... The long, storied history of solidarity between ...

FIRST ON FOX: The Guinness Storehouse at St. James’s Gate in Dublin, Ireland houses more than just the secrets of Ireland’s famous pillow-soft, ruby-black stout. It also houses one of the world’s ...

The solidarity group Noraid raised millions of dollars to support the Irish republican movement during the Troubles. Although ...

Scots-Irish immigrants, the first European settlers in large numbers to southwestern Pennsylvania, are typically associated with the region’s industrial takeoff. Their legacy includes Gilded Age ...