An Irish-American author's new historical fiction novel offers a fascinating insight into life on the Aran Islands in the late 19th century and life in the immigrant communities of New York during the ...

You can learn a lot from Irish history. In the aftermath of the Easter Rebellion of 1916, the British unwisely executed several of the Irish rebels. What was initially seen by most Irish as the ...

“All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born,” wrote Yeats in one of the most powerful political poems of the 20th century, Easter, 1916. The elegiac masterpiece simultaneously mourns ...