A look at the colonial strategies used by the British on Irish soil. Over the centuries, Ireland was a country structured on rebellions and conflicts between the Irishmen who sought to liberate their ...
This is green-beer day, corned-beef and cabbage day. Today everyone is Irish. Today the world celebrates the birth of Saint Patrick, who introduced Christianity to the Emerald Isle way back in the ...
They unveiled a Celtic cross on Deer Island the other day. It is a Christian symbol, of course, but, like many things in Irish culture, it has pagan roots. The circle that dominates the top of a ...
On last year’s St. Patrick’s Day, progressives of Irish ancestry organized the first “Irish Stand” rally at Riverside Church in New York City to protest the xenophobic and racist policies of the Trump ...
Corporate funding is provided by The Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson. Additional funding is provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Atlantic ...
Montserrat is the only country aside from Ireland to celebrate St Patrick’s Day as a public holiday. It’s not just a chance to go on the beer but recalls the African rebellion against Irish slavers ...
On April 1, 1809, immigrant John O'Raw wrote from Charleston, South Carolina to his parents Bryan and Nellie O'Raw in Ballymena, Antrim. "Through the mercy of divine Providence I am still in existence ...