There is also a strong link between our country and Tenerife, where Irish traders established themselves as far back as the 17th century. Ireland has long had a love affair with Spain, and one of the ...

THERE has been much made of the monies being spent by the Department of Communities on the forthcoming 250th anniversary celebrations of the birth of the American nation. It is much ado about nothing ...

The Kennedys have been a powerhouse family in Irish America long before one of their own claimed the presidency. President John F Kennedy is frequently recognized for cultivating the family's robust ...

For almost two decades IrishCentral has served as the digital hearth for millions of people across the world who cherish their Irish roots. Your support through the Friends of IrishCentral initiative ...

CHICAGO — This side of the Emerald Isle itself, there may be no better place to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day than Chicago, a city with a proud and deep-rooted Irish community. Chicago’s St. Patrick’s ...

In a stunning break in a decades-old mystery, a man has been charged with the 1996 slaying of a young woman whose body was found naked in a drainage ditch nearly 30 years ago. Brian Walton, 63, was ...

Michael Che brutally shut down a fan who suggested a sketch about Epstein Island with “actual children” for Saturday Night Live. The SNL comedian and “Weekend Update” co-anchor mocked the pitch in a ...

When I was 18 and in my first year at Trinity College, I moved out of home and into a house-share in Ranelagh, just south of Dublin’s city centre. My father drove me in, the rear seats of our old ...

I am instinctively suspicious of hotel restaurants. Too often they are upholstered into submission. Thankfully, Cantina Valentina, the Peruvian-inspired restaurant inside the new Hoxton on Exchequer ...

With the Winter Olympics upon us, we have a chance to watch sports that we rarely see. Sports such as curling, luge, bobsleigh, and speed skating. No doubt both McAnuff and O'Brien are proud to ...