And of course, its many indirect legacies include inspiring the nickname of a former Irish finance minister, Ray McSharry, whose swingeing budget cuts of the late 1980s earned him redesignation as a ...

In the 1650s, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was on a mission to expand the British empire. Having completed the conquest of Ireland in 1653, he ...

Consisting of 20 scholarly but accessible essays, the book explores its subject through the prism of history, design, sociology, literature, and psychology ...

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 ...

WE’VE officially entered the first month of spring after what feels like a long, cold and wet winter. And now the sun is starting to come out again and the days stretch longer, you are ...

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 ...

Goat bones dating to between 1100 B.C.E. and 900 B.C.E. were a close genetic match for modern Old Irish goats, a historic breed with declining numbers ...

Denelle Cowart, assistant professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University, will discuss Irish writers Edith ...

Ashes to Fashion pays homage to the efforts of curators past and present across 50 years as they rebuild a costume and textile collection that was destroyed (bar one sole surviving object) by a fire ...

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 ...

What a historic night for Northern Irish darts. Josh Rock made history last Thursday by becoming the first Northern Irishman ever to hit a nine-darter in the Premier League Darts. In front of a ...