Ireland News

During a major, historic wave of Irish immigration to the United States at the turn of the last century, a tenacious Catholic effort helped one-third of the young, single Irish women who arrived in the Port of New York.

Irish brewer Guinness said on Sunday that it would not participate in New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade this year because gay and lesbian groups had been excluded, costing organizers a key sponsor of the annual event.

When March creeps up, New Jersey goes wild for one reason: "Green Day" is coming.

Saint Patrick's Day is upon us, a Monday to recognize Patrick, one of the most revered patron saints of Ireland.

For many, Saint Patrick's Day is an opportunity to be Irish for just the day. But for two Irish men, the holiday is part of who they are.

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Wreckage has been removed from the scene of the helicopter crash which killed Lord Ballyedmond, founder of Norbrook Laboratories, and three others in England on Thursday.

University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor of English Kieran Quinlan, Ph.D., has been named the winner of the 2014 Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction.

William Rory Gallagher was the best Irish bluesman ever. He was born in Ballyshannon, Ireland and raised in Cork.

Fly: Aer Lingus now flies daily from Boston and New York JFK to Shannon International Airport; you also can fly from Chicago.

Sixteen years ago, Anne Gagnon saw that Pittsfield had a sister city in Italy, and wondered why not have one in Ireland? A trip to the Irish consulate in Boston and a visit to several cities in Ireland later, the Pittsfield resident helped land the city of Ballina as Pittsfield's new sister.

This St. Patrick's Day, scratch the green food coloring and try your luck on these five classic Irish dishes.

The setting had all the hallmarks of an Irish period drama. As we passed through the gateway, a winding driveway flanked by gushing weirs and a fairy-tale swan lake veered toward a historic country manor, magnificently buttressed by a 13th-century castle tower.

Bad food, bad weather, scary driving on the "wrong side" of the road, and intolerable cigarette smoke in the pubs.

They once made up 4% of Birmingham's population and were its biggest minority group - but official figures say the number of Irish in the city has declined.

Saint Patrick's Day celebrations started early for the Royal Irish Regiment when they were presented with their shamrock at a Drumahead Service on Saturday.

On Saint Patrick's Day weekend, NPR's Jacki Lyden reflects on her own family's journey from Ireland to America, and back again.

Labour Ireland South MEP Phil Prendergast officially kicks off her European Election campaign in Nenagh with Minister Alan Kelly, Cllr Lalor McGee and Cllr Virginia O Dowd Ireland South MEP and former midwife, Phil Prendergast, has called for the midwife shortage at South Tipperary General Hospital to be addressed.

Was St. Patrick even Irish? Will drinking green Guinness make you a Plastic Paddy? And can you learn to Riverdance in Converse sneakers? WSJ Off Duty seeks answers.

LONG BEACH >> For a man who wasn't supposed to walk, Irish tenor Ronan Tynan has hit octaves above any limits placed on him early in life.