When NUIG Professor John Breslin began colorizing old black and white family photographs, little did he realize that he would go on to publish this book, Old Ireland in Colour, which rocketed to the ...

“Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history,” Novalis said. It was subtle of Penelope Fitzgerald to use this as the epigraph for her historical novel about the poet, “The Blue Flower,” implying, ...

Edinburgh’s First Hibernian: The Mission of Edward Joseph Hannan by Mike Hennessy (Thirsty Books, £25) ...

The shortlist for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards has been unveiled, featuring a diverse and exciting mix of exceptional writing from both new and established writers across 19 categories.

“Ouch!” You’ll say that more than once when reading Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves. American readers familiar with O’Toole from his reviews in The New York Review of Books or his work as a ...

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 ...

THE GREAT HUNGER (510 pp.)—Cecil Woodham-Smith—Harper & Row ($6.95). Between the Black Death and Buchenwald, Europe saw nothing like it west of Russia. In the five years of Ireland’s Potato Famine ...

Ireland is a land where the past and present coexist in perfect harmony, each enriching the other. In my travel special on ...

Ireland’s ‘first’ novel for children, a coming-of-age tale published in 1794, is the focus of a talk celebrating the 20th ...

Ali Watkins had always heard vague, mysterious stories about her great-grandfather. She knew he left Northern Ireland for Philadelphia in 1922, immigrating under suspicious circumstances. Her family ...