Ireland's two major centre-right parties finalised a coalition deal with independent lawmakers on Wednesday that will return ...

Ireland has moved a step closer to forming a new government. Irish media says a deal was reached Tuesday between Fianna Fail, ...

Donald Trump will once again become president of the United States. Just as Joe Biden goes out with a whimper, his successor has pledged to come in with a bang. Many worry about what might lie ahead, ...

A new documentary about legendary political figure Eamon de Valera criticises his attitude to women and accuses him of the ...

Just over 100 years ago, the fledgling Irish Free State sent Timothy Smiddy to Washington, D.C. Smiddy was the new Irish ...

As President-elect Donald Trump talks of Canada joining the US, history shows that in its early days, America was ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. On December 1, the Irish rejected the country's pro-reunification party in the parliamentary elections. The ...

Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said Ireland needs to “hold our nerve” and not overreact as Donald Trump becomes US president. Mr Martin was speaking after the US president-elect refused to rule out ...

The blood-soaked history of Scotch-Irish settlers on the early American frontier—and its echoes in today’s politics.

On this day, Jan 2, 1920, recruitment began for the Black and Tans, Britain’s unofficial auxiliary army during the Irish War of Independence. The Black and Tans first arrived in Ireland on March ...

Southeast Asian country is now the world’s largest producer of opium and one of the largest manufacturers of synthetic drugs ...

They are at war with Germany. Recruiting goes on there actively ... The continued occupation of these by British troops was resented as a diminution of Ireland's independence; and last year, as part ...