Emma Donoghue’s historical novel was inspired by a train crash in late 19th-century France.

One of the saddest threads running through Ireland's economic stagnation and abject poverty 80 years ago was the paradoxical ...

Here are the greatest, most formidable tycoons of the 19th century. One of the richest men who ever lived ... A completely self made man, Carnegie was born in poverty in Dunfermline and emigrated to ...

Vaccines, medications and other biomedical breakthroughs are necessary to eliminate epidemic diseases. But as I explore in my ...

A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish ...

The 2025-2026 season will include Remi Remi Remi, The Nutcracker, Peter Pan, For the Love of Dance!, and La Bohème. Check ...

Historian and author Ian Stewart picks five of his favourite British history books that tell the stories of a union.

By examining world labor and political data spanning back to the 19th century, UC Riverside Associate Professor Ugo Antonio ...

As the tracks inched their way from Pennsburg to Emaus (Emmaus) in 1874, the workers who moved the ground, laid the ties, and placed the irons went with them. These "sons of Erin" were a spirited ...

Some Irish recipes like shepherd's pie and soda bread are popular in the US, but some, like Dublin coddle, are less widely ...

As global markets reel from mounting uncertainty, billionaire investor Warren Buffett has a timeless piece of advice for investors: “Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs.” The Berkshire ...

Experts on the era say Trump is idealizing a time rife with government and business corruption, social turmoil and inequality ...