Editor’s Introduction: The MacBride Principles aimed to secure the elimination of religious or anti-Catholic discrimination in the hiring process or employment practices of U.S. corporations with ...

The descendants of Irish people sold into slavery in the 1600s live in a close-knit community beset by poverty and ill health. During the winter of 1636, a ship bearing a consignment of 61 men and ...

A man and his family are trying to preserve something very important in a remote area of County Mayo – away from the tourist buses and interpretive centers. The Lost Valley of Uggool is not easy to ...

John Walsh, host of America’s Most Wanted and The John Walsh Show, talks about his family, his television shows, his thoughts on Ireland, and his tireless crusading. Before he was a TV icon, ...

From the coal mines to Hollywood, the Pennsylvania Irish have shaped America for over three centuries. William Penn may have been a trailblazer when it came to American freedom and religious tolerance ...

Until now, the many genealogists who have researched Hillary Clinton’s ancestry have attached her Welsh grandmother, Hannah Jones, to the wrong parents. Roots detective Megan Smolenyak homes in on ...

The Celtic cross that the Ladies’ Ancient Order of Hibernians Auxiliary dedicated to Great Hunger victims at the Cohasset Cemetery in Massachusetts. Her other books include: Black Abolitionists In ...

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 ...

Daniel O’Connell is remembered as the Liberator of Irish Catholics, but he also played a significant role in the movement to end slavery. On 23 May 2011, President Obama made an historic visit to the ...

A revealing insight into the life of Irish actor Gabriel Byrne. Gabriel Byrne is a paradox. Most articles focus on his dark, brooding persona while playing up his rugged, Celtic good looks, but to see ...

This exchange in a novel about college sports in the 1920s catches the prejudices that many Americans of the time held toward citizens of Irish-Catholic descent. However, unlike other immigrant groups ...

More than two dozen sons of Irish immigrants, who played in the 1880-1920 period, are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Many other great Irish players have made their mark on the ...