I was born in Buffalo, grew up outside Washington, D.C., and later in East Aurora, New York. I currently reside in the Elmwood Village with my wife. A few of my Irish ancestors settled in Buffalo as ...

Thomas Cahill, a multilingual scholar who wrote a surprise 1995 bestseller demonstrating to the world how a small band of Irish monks collected and protected the jewels of Western civilization after ...

In her luminous new study "Race, Politics, and Irish America – A Gothic History," author Mary M. Burke writes a cultural history of race and Irishness in the Americas. “In the book, I've tried to tell ...

Kerby Miller is the author of numerous scholarly publications on Irish history. His book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America won the Merle Curti Award Best Book in US ...

Siege, not pitched battle, was the predominant military tactic used by all sides during the Irish Confederate Wars, the conflict that devastated Ireland between 1641 and 1653. Many walled towns and ...

Ireland has always been a land of storytellers, a place where words are woven into the very fabric of our culture. And to celebrate that along with its 20th anniversary, the An Post Irish Book Awards ...