Addie and I both believed that Jameson was “Catholic”—that is, aligned with Irish independence in the struggle against British colonialism. We’d absorbed this idea by osmosis during our heavily Irish ...

The death of John Hemingway, the last of The Few who fought in the Battle of Britain, has brought a reminder of the southern ...

In the centuries after the Reformation, Liverpool mostly avoided the religious disputes that characterised other parts of Britain. With people of various faiths working alongside each other on ships ...

How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great Hunger and how "take the soup" became etched in Ireland's psyche.

“St. Patrick” is symbolic in the United States of Irish Roman Catholicism and all it stands for. But the Protestants of Ireland, usually called “Scotch Irish,” take a very different vie ...

If it’s March, and it’s green, it must be St. Patrick’s Day. The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global ...

Five lads from Northern Ireland blend their voices for the perfect Irish sound. Their show is a testament to unity after the ...

Irish nationalist groups active in the U.S. – the Fenians, Clan na Gael and, later, Irish Northern Aid – participated in these American St. Patrick’s Day parades, proudly wearing green to demonstrate ...

Led mostly by middle-class Protestants and in coordination with some Catholics, the United Irish adopted the “wearing of the green” to represent Irish nationalism and their fight against ...