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 ...

During the socially turbulent and unusually sweltering summer of 1919, the 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald reworked "This Side of Paradise", the novel that turned him into an overnight sensation and ...

The “Decade of Centenaries” in Ireland, which ended recently is a good time to read an excellent and moving book by Ellen McWilliams, "Resting Places: On Wounds, War, and the Irish Revolution." The ...

The movie that won top prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival open this weekend in New York and L.A. It's "The Wind that Shakes the Barley," a story about the violent birth and subsequent splintering ...

Addressing the House of Commons in December 1921, Winston Churchill wondered where, what he called the ‘mysterious power’ of Ireland, came from. After all, he opined, it was a ‘small, poor, sparsely ...

After the failed insurrection of 1916, revolutionary Ireland reorganized and devised new tactics that would eventually lead to the country's independence. Such important figures as Michael Collins and ...

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 ...

Mark journeys to Dublin Bay, exploring the deeper meaning behind the ballads he’s sung for years. Mark travels to Dublin Bay, seeking a deeper meaning behind the Irish ballads he’s sung for years, and ...