It began: “IRISH MEN AND IRISH WOMEN: In the name of God and the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag ...

Given the oppressive conditions under which they lived and worked, it’s hard to imagine how 19th Century Irish immigrants had time to volunteer as firefighters. Yet they did, according to firefighting ...

Irish American astronaut and Expedition 27 Flight Engineer Catherine Coleman played a pair of Irish melodies on a 100-year-old flute and a tin whistle while floating in the ISS on Saint Patrick’s Day ...

The Dublin-based Irish Pub Company has designed upwards of 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries around the globe ...

Whiskey is the English interpretation of an old Irish name for the drink - uisce beatha which means water of life. The uisce part was anglicised to become whiskey, and in some parts of Ireland it ...

And in the middle is a holiday associated with merry drinking and a centuries-old religious figure: St. Patrick's Day. Monday, March 17, is the holiday to celebrate everything Irish, including St ...

By 1972, Cahalane was also one of the Irish Republican Army’s most successful international gunrunners, ferrying rifles and ...

More info Gardai carrying out a policing operation on Irish roads during the St ... the Garda Road Policing Unit in Dublin utilised the Scania lorry cab to spot drivers using mobile phones and ...

David Roy speaks to US journalist Ali Watkins about her book The Next One is For You, which reveals how IRA weapons made ...

Pronounced, “Ban-ukh-tee nah Fay-leh Paw-drig ur-iv.” "Wetting the shamrock" is an old Irish saying meaning "to go for a drink,", particularly on St. Patrick's Day, so if you plan on meeting ...

Pints of Guinness, shamrock symbols and 'kiss me I'm Irish' t-shirts will decorate cities ... Stories claim that when he was 60 years old, St Patrick chose to go back to Ireland, the land of ...