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The Boomtown Rat musician said he'd spoken to the Irish PM about being the candidate for the Fianna Fail Party, but decided ...
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Let us celebrate Irish culture today by sharing some traditional Irish songs. They harp tracks are perfect for relaxing this evening. #Irish #Ireland #StPatrick As part of ...
Sir, – Diarmaid Ferriter’s reprise of de Valera’s life was even-handed (Our Father, Weekend, August 23rd) and that’s the problem. Writers on Irish history feel an obligation to be “responsible”, to ...
MUSKEGON, Mich. — The Michigan Irish Music Festival returns to Muskegon's Heritage Landing next month and time is running out to take advantage of their early online pricing. The annual festival runs ...
Myanmar's military has announced the first phase of a general election to be held in late December, in a poll widely seen as an attempt to lend the junta legitimacy following its 2021 coup. State-run ...
IRISH FEST IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW AT HENRY MAIER FESTIVAL PARK. TONIGHT IS A PREVIEW NIGHT, SO ONLY A PORTION OF THE GROUNDS ARE OPEN. ADMISSION IS $10. ONLY TONIGHT IT GOES UP TO 27 TOMORROW THROUGH ...
The documentary from Dennis Harvey and Lars Lovén, world premiering in the Locarno Critics' Week, tunes into songs from The Mary Wallopers, Young Spencer and more that carry "the oppression of the ...
The political, ideological, and economic impacts of the conflict were felt around the world, and especially in the nations of France and Great Britain, who had the most to gain or lose in this ...
Exhumation of a mass grave has begun in Tuam, Ireland, at the site of a former mother and baby home — one of several that once operated across the country. The burial site, which could hold the ...
The quarrel of His Majesty’s Government in the Irish Free State with His Majesty’s Government in Great Britain passed from ominous threats to ominous action last week. At 6 p. m. the King-Emperor gave ...
A “weir” is a barrier erected across a stream or river to create a dam, and “The Weir,” first staged in 1997 and now playing at the Irish Repertory Theater, is about the barriers between this world ...
A Civil War prison camp operated along the Chemung River in Elmira between July 1864 and July 1865, and nearly 3,000 of the 12,000 Confederate soldiers incarcerated there died. A group known as ...