Between June 21, 1877, and 1879 20 Irishmen known as the Molly Maguires, a labor movement working and organizing in the Pennsylvania coal fields, were executed.
June 21 marks the Summer Solstice in 2018 when the ancient Celts would have celebrated the longest day of the year with a local bonfire, song, and dance but what other feast days were of importance to our ancient ancestors.
A film documentary by an Oscar-winning director has brought the story of the state’s role in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre to a world audience and by doing so, enhanced the families’ quest for justice.
The poor scribes of yore who were spiritual calligraphers and illuminators of Ireland's most famous book, many housed in Trinity College Dublin, the monks and scholars of Ireland.
Remembering the words and quotes of Irish writer James Joyce, whose life itself would make for a fascinating book. There is much about the author unknown to even his most ardent fans.
Campaigners are calling for the Hunterian Museum in London to release the stolen remains of 18th-century Irish “giant” and return the skeleton to Ireland for burial.
"The Frederick Douglass Project" is a production by Solas Nua, an Irish-American arts company, in order to highlight Douglass's connection to Ireland and explain how his trip to Ireland in 1845 influenced his life.
Titanic survivor, Englishman Charles Herbert Lightoller not only lived following the infamous sinking but had already had an extraordinary life full of high seas disasters and a search for gold during the Klondike Gold Rush before the Titanic.
On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
