St. Patrick may be Ireland’s most famous saint, but a new biography for young readers sheds light on another great Irish holy ...

In his writing, Patrick recounts how he was captured by raiders and sold into slavery in Ireland. Six years later, he experienced a religious epiphany while tending sheep and believed God was calling ...

MPs enjoyed an exhibition in the Houses of Parliament last week of young people’s drawings, poetry, sculpture and prose on ...

The Lost Town of Newtown Jerpoint was founded by either Earl Marshal or Griffin Fitzwilliam in the 12th Century, just west of ...

White supremacy remains a very potent weapon for the powerful in this country and I don't think that the far left should ...

It's a day of fast and abstinence that it always preceded by "Pancake Tuesday," sometimes known as Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday in other parts of the world. According to the Irish ...

Relatives of a Belfast woman abducted and murdered by an IRA interrogation gang have lost a High Court battle aimed at securing a public inquiry into the full extent it was penetrated by state agents.

Pull out those "Kiss Me, I'm Irish" T-shirts, iron those spring green pants and find those shamrock-shaped shades — Baton Rouge celebrates St. Patrick's Day on Sunday. The main event, of course ...

The conjecture that the Irish, like the other inhabitants of the British Isles are of Hebrew extraction has for many ...

“St. Patrick” is symbolic in the United States of Irish Roman Catholicism and all it stands for. But the Protestants of Ireland, usually called “Scotch Irish,” take a very different view.