The ruins of Dunamase Castle tower over County Laois in Ireland. It's been centuries since anyone lived here, but an American tour group has come to imagine what life might have been like when their ...

US President Theodore Roosevelt added to the Celtic revival and the reinterpretation of the Celts with an article accompanied ...

This post describes how and why the political salience of Irish-American identity has declined enormously over the last century, and what can be learned from that experience. An excerpt: Today is St.

FIRST ON FOX: The Guinness Storehouse at St. James’s Gate in Dublin, Ireland houses more than just the secrets of Ireland’s famous pillow-soft, ruby-black stout. It also houses one of the world’s ...

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 ...

Almost 10% of modern day Americans can trace their heritage to Ireland, and they have helped shape the present day United States as we know it. Most of their ancestors came through New York City and ...

Sir, – Diarmaid Ferriter’s reprise of de Valera’s life was even-handed (Our Father, Weekend, August 23rd) and that’s the problem. Writers on Irish history feel an obligation to be “responsible”, to ...

Nearly 350 years ago, a teenage Richard Joyce waited for the ship that would carry him from Galway across the Atlantic Ocean. A son of a once wealthy merchant family, Joyce was being sent to the West ...