Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three tourists in Dublin city centre, Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin 1, Ireland. From the earliest African arrivals on Irish shores, ...

One of the most startling statistics about Ireland is that half of all the people born here since 1820 have emigrated. It is estimated that there are more than 70 million people worldwide who are of ...

“Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history,” Novalis said. It was subtle of Penelope Fitzgerald to use this as the epigraph for her historical novel about the poet, “The Blue Flower,” implying, ...

Can the rich and troubled history of our Emerald Isle be recounted in a mere 265 pages? Not if the gargantuan tomes I hauled around as an undergraduate were anything to go by – but James Hawes has ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner people in our community are celebrating the history of the Irish Community here in Savannah. In Monday’s Saluting the Irish - ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A tradition 200 years strong, majorly influenced by Savannah’s large Irish population. But why did so many Irishmen end up in the heart of the South? Dr. Howard Keeley is the ...

One day in May 2015, I was wheeling my three-month-old son (already equipped with an Irish passport via his Donegal mother), when a one-man publisher called: how about me trying to write history told ...

“Ouch!” You’ll say that more than once when reading Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves. American readers familiar with O’Toole from his reviews in The New York Review of Books or his work as a ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Whether you're Irish or not, everyone is a little bit Irish on St. Patrick's Day. For centuries, the Irish have observed the day of Saint Patrick’s death as a religious holiday, ...

Early in the pages of We Don’t Know Ourselves, Fintan O’Toole’s masterful “personal history” of modern Ireland, I came upon a moment in O’Toole’s life that intersected unexpectedly with my own. The ...