The perseverance of the Irish people in maintaining their language, history and values created a world of oral tradition ...

Despite its allegorical significance about paganism, the snake myth has persisted unquestioned. Meanwhile, St. Brigid, an equally venerable Irish patron saint, credited with the infinitely more ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

On Friday, we will publish numbers 50 to 26 and on Saturday we will reveal the top 25 Irish fiction titles of the century so far. The novel that arose from a Facebook page sharing real-life ...

Her Irish eyes are smiling, but it’s her native tongue that has captured New Yorkers’ attention. Born and raised on a farm in County Cork, Ireland, Vivienne Sayers O’Callaghan moved to ...

If you’re a home mixologist, you probably have a few bottles that are both indispensable and also often overlooked. They’re the kind of spirits, liqueurs, and ingredients that you always have ...

The ancient Irish were at least familiar with the notion of reincarnation, as Irish mythology shows. The Druids left us no written record of their religion or the belief system of our ancient ...

Nonetheless the entire event was contaminated with the insidious mythology of Irish specialness, the perception that denizens of the Emerald Isle are a loquacious, hot-tempered, often maddening ...

But still they live in fear. They are the thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants in America today. Recent estimates from the Irish government suggest that there are as many as 10,000 ...

The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), the largest Irish American fraternal organization in the US, has issued a statement after US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday, March 26 that the ...

Though only 1 in 9 people in the U.S. claim Irish heritage, about 61% of Americans plan to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, according to the National Retail Federation. Wearing green, hosting a ...

“Ireland has our pharma companies,” said US president Donald Trump on Wednesday in some of the most significant comments of his encounter with Taoiseach Micheál Martin. And he wants them back.