For Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, a historian who is the current Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College, the impact of the Irish Revolution (1916-1923)—like other sweeping historical ...
Editor's Note: IrishCentral is delighted to be partnering with Davy Holden, an Irish history expert from Co Kilkenny, on a series of videos he created while recently visiting the US. You can see his ...
By the Revolutionary War in the late 1770s, those marking the anniversary of St. Patrick’s death on March 17 included Irish ...
Born into privilege but drawn to revolution, Constance Markievicz lived a life of striking contradictions. The daughter of a wealthy Anglo-Irish family, she turned her back on societal expectations to ...
In September of 1861, Thomas Meagher began recruiting Irishmen to form a new Irish brigade. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pádraig, i.e. “the Day of the Festival of ...
As the title of the novel attests, this story involves the atrocities committed both before and during the Irish Civil War by the invasive forces of the British – as well as by the Irish against their ...
As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this year, the Embassy of Ireland and Ireland’s consulates in the U.S. are reflecting on the role ...
IT may have come late in the day, but surely it’s something to celebrate that the DUP has finally seen the light and is sinking money into projects celebrating Irish revolutionaries who bloodied ...