Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen who penned such wonderful novels as The Death of the Heart and Demon Lover, and helped establish the ‘Big House’ in Irish literature, failed in her own efforts to save ...

The President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins paid tribute to the First Nations of Canada and Native Americans for their contributions to Irish Famine relief in 1847 at the National Famine Commemoration ...

One warm summer evening last year, I picked up a first edition of The Country Girl from the bookshelf in a house where I was staying and I did not leave my place by the window until I had read it from ...

CARDINAL Timothy Michael Dolan, Archbishop of New York, shared a video this month in which he appears with Sister Mary Bosco in Tullamore, Co. Offaly. The 100-year-old Irish nun, a Sister of Mercy, ...

GARDA investigating the disappearance and murder of Fiona Pender have revealed a new search at a… News from Ireland and happenings in Irish America..

ONE of the two teenagers who died after getting into difficulty in the sea in Co. Donegal last week has been described as ‘a true ambassador of hope’. Emmanuel Familola, 16, died in the tragedy in ...

A WOMAN in her 70s has died following a collision involving a bicycle and a tractor in Co. Clare. The incident occurred at around 12.45pm on Saturday on the L3180 at Toonagh, Tulla. Gardaí have now ...

POLICE have named two men who died in separate road traffic collisions on Friday as Paddy McDonald and Philip Taylor. Mr McDonald, 62, was riding a bicycle when it was involved in a collision with a ...

Thomas Moore was the most popular poet of his day. His “Irish Melodies,” arranged and sung to traditional tunes, were translated into many languages and won him international fame. He was particularly ...

The Irish in Canada have won a major victory over the Canadian Government on how the national historic site at Grosse Ile should be developed. The small island in the St. Lawrence River, 48 kilometers ...

COUNCILLOR Ryan Hack has been elected as the new Mayor of Brent, becoming the borough’s First Citizen at the Council’s annual general meeting held earlier this month. At 26, Cllr Hack is the youngest ...

THE sod was turned this week on a much-anticipated social housing project in Dublin. Construction work has officially begun on Blackbird Park in Cabra, north Dublin for the Focus Housing Association ...