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This season the Irish Repertory Company is celebrating the work of the great Ulster dramatist Brian Friel. It has been staging, for instance, Friel...

They were called The Silent Sentinels. Members of the National Woman’s Party, 33 of them were sentenced to prison in November 1917 for protesting o...

Former congressman Tom Suozzi is in a tight race as he attempts to secure a return to the House of Representatives in a special election set for Tu...

We are divided as rarely seen before, the pundits say. It’s true at a basic level in terms of the division between blue states and red, or at least...

The restoration last Saturday of the political institutions and the election of Michelle O'Neill as First Minister marks an extraordinary turning p...

Light heavyweight “Mighty” Joe Ward is a new addition to the St. Patrick’s Day weekend boxing card at New York’s Madison Square Garden on March 15....

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald has said that a referendum on Irish unity can be expected “in this decade." Ms. McDonald was speaking on RTÉ’...

Northern Ireland has been waiting for this. Waiting not just for the two years since the last Assembly election, but waiting since its very foundat...

The new-look FAI board met in Abbotstown last week, with chairman Tony Keohane chairing his first in-person meeting of the 12 directors. But after ...

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has criticised the “criminals” behind the torching of a former care home in County Dublin. Some people had staged protests n...