Irish immigrants and their descendants played a leading part in the Easter Rising of 1916 and Ireland's subsequent rebellion. But the inspiration worked in the other direction as well.

MAR 23, 2015 - Scheduled to be unveiled in May in Bailic Park in Middleton, Cork County, Ireland.,

Outside profiled County Donegal in the April 2016 issue and called it the 'end of the rainbow' for adventure seekers.

Propaganda is cheap to produce on the web. And a purposeful lie in an age of "viral content" not only can race around the world in a day but resurface time and time again with surprising resiliency. 

The Ulster History Circle has unveiled its 200th plaque which remembers Oliver Pollock, a local man credited for creating the dollar sign.

"They make it sound like a war zone."

The Land War in Ireland left many poor tenant farmers facing eviction from their homes. But not without a fight.

Poet and Irish expatriate Frank Delaney has enjoyed success as a BBC host, Man Booker Prize judge and author of the best-selling novel, Ireland. To honor St. Patrick's Day, Delaney shares with Weekend Edition his original poem, Drowning the Shamrock.

Legal experts condemn compensation scheme for women who were crippled by Irish doctors during childbirth.

Ireland goes to the polls an increasingly liberal country – yet religion’s place in state education is staving off the decline of the Catholic church

Apparently this had being going on for years'.

Wearing nothing more than a pair of royal blue Superman Y-fronts, Irish boxing contender Jamie Kavanagh was flexing his muscles for the cameras on stage in preparation for the weigh-in when automatic gunfire echoed around the main hall of Dublin’s Regency Hotel. Dozens of people attending Friday’s pre-bout ritual for yesterday’s subsequently aborted WBO fight for the European lightweight title fled for their lives. Young boys were caught...

A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast has sequenced the first genomes from ancient Irish humans, and the information buried within is already answering pivotal questions about the origins of Ireland’s people and their culture.

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“Now what, on earth, is going on in this account? The newspapers that wrote about Doheny described her as a ‘witch,’ but it would be closer to the truth to call her a ‘fairy woman’ or a ‘fairy doctor’: the nineteenth-century media, particularly in Britain, constantly misunderstood Irish fairy superstitions, confusing the same with witchcraft...” By Dr Simon Young.

We were a group of Instagram photographers invited by Samsung Mobile Germany and Tourism Ireland to explore and photograph Ireland with our Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge on a four-day trip. Based on our interests and visual aesthetics, we split up into two groups. One group explored the cities of Belfast and Dublin while the other group went down south, focusing on the beautiful landscapes of the Kerry and Cork region.

Royalty is elected and legends live on through this strange, tiny island off the coast of County Donegal.

Producer Rikke Houd and illustrator Anthony Calvert tell the story of Pat Herbert, founder of the Hurdy Gurdy Museum in Ireland, recalling the time he heard radio for the very first time.

A coffee revolution has been in full swing right across Ireland for a few years now. Not only are Irish coffee connoisseurs keenly aware of where they can get their favourite coffee, they’re also curious how it’s brewed and who's brewing it. Now, wait for it, one of Dublin’s coffee hotspots has a “water tasting menu” on offer. For €3.50, water tasters can have four shots of water.