This December, join Dr. Damian Shiels for a comprehensive three-week online course titled "Researching the American Civil War." Explore the remarkable stories of Irish bravery, sacrifice, and ...

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.

At the end of her wide-ranging “fireside chat” with Irish Ambassador to the United States Geraldine Byrne Nason last week in Burns Library, Boston College Irish Institute Director Mary Murphy invited ...

The Irish American Heritage Society (IAHS) of Augusta has been awarded a Bronze Anthem Award in the Education, Art & Culture ...

The ethnic milestones and makeup of the Supreme Court have long been topics of fascination, from the notion of a “Jewish seat ...

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 ...

A Reddit user has shared their surprising experience using a popular family heritage service, Ancestry DNA, which revealed ...

The silent film “The Callahans and the Murphys” was pulled after an uproar over stereotyping. What happened next tantalized one fan of old movies. By Dan Barry One moment I am sprawled on a couch in ...