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 ...

An ancient Celtic Festival, the Catholic Church, the Irish Potato Famine, and community leaders turned Halloween into the ...

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 ...

Untapped New York Insiders get $10 off all public Untapped New York walking Tours! Hear the tale of the mysterious Annie Doherty, lost within the lace of Donegal. Meet Boss Tweed, the legend of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Propelled by anti-establishment fervor, Catherine Connolly was elected last week with a landmark popular mandate.