Linguists say reaction to Irish TD’s remarks reflects shared regional English roots and enduring impact of empire ...

The Irish Film Institute (IFI) in Dublin, in association with Gael Linn, has launched a new collection of historically ...

“Scots-Irish,” a popular label among American conservatives today, has long been a kind of shorthand for mythic ideas about what makes someone a “real American.” ...

Some of the leading trainers based in the UK believe there may be light at the end of the Prestbury Cup tunnel having been on ...

“Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,/ It’s with O’Leary in the grave.” So wrote WB Yeats in his well-known poem September 1913, as he mournfully reflected on contemporary Irish culture, comparing it ...

The Irish often invaded and settled in both Wales and Cornwall, the English settled in all three other countries, Ireland’s patron saint Patrick is probably Welsh, or possibly from Cumbria, while ...

Ireland’s performance in the 42-21 win in the Six Nations at Twickenham on Saturday was one for the ages. The players were brave beyond belief and their unconquerable spirit was magnificent. It was ...

The UK Parliament is made up of the Monarch, House of Lords and the House of Commons. Known as 'The Mother of Parliaments' this parliamentary system has been copied by many countries around the world.

The first to combine orange, white and green was forgotten patriot Emilia Eleanor Hamilton, who crafted an orange, white and green cockade to be ‘worn near the heart of every Irishman’, writes John ...

Longtime Carnew teacher and local historian, Kevin Lee, who helped generations of Canadians trace their County Wicklow roots dies at 78.

A new book recalls the colourful, contested past of the individual countries that make up the UK and Ireland... and some of ...

Learn about Anne Boleyn's legacy, her iconic 'B' pattern portraits, and how history shapes our view of her appearance.