TWO men have been arrested following a stabbing attack in Belfast. Police were called to the incident in the Falls Road at 2.45am yesterday morning (May 26). “Shortly before 2.45am, officers received ...

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 ...

Brian Dooley, author of Black and Green: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black America, breaks down the struggles shared by Northern Ireland and Black America.

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 ...

THE financial cost of a united Ireland could be between €8bn and €20bn a year, according to a new study. Researchers at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) have published a ...

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 ...

On Saturday, October 15, at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York, headstones were placed on the graves of Thomas Hassett and Michael Harrington to the tune of a bagpiper from the County Cork ...

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 ...