During the socially turbulent and unusually sweltering summer of 1919, the 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald reworked "This Side of Paradise", the novel that turned him into an overnight sensation and ...

For Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, a historian who is the current Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College, the impact of the Irish Revolution (1916-1923)—like other sweeping historical ...

The Irish revolution, however you choose to define it, was the founding event in modern Irish history. Even with the passage of a century, it continues to cast its glow across our land and, of course, ...

The “Decade of Centenaries” in Ireland, which ended recently is a good time to read an excellent and moving book by Ellen McWilliams, "Resting Places: On Wounds, War, and the Irish Revolution." The ...

He was one of the key leaders of the 1916 “Easter Rising” armed insurrection that ended with his execution but paved the way for most of Ireland to win its independence from Britain. But before that, ...

After the failed insurrection of 1916, revolutionary Ireland reorganized and devised new tactics that would eventually lead to the country's independence. Such important figures as Michael Collins and ...

It conjures the anxiety of forcing the tragic narratives owned by others to conform to the pattern of a separate subjective language. But it also carries with it the weight of that age-old question: ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – A new play, "The Revolution: The Irish War of Independence 1919-1921," makes its debut in Bethlehem just in time for St. Patrick's Day. The Crowded Kitchen Players will present its ...

Mark journeys to Dublin Bay, exploring the deeper meaning behind the ballads he’s sung for years. Mark travels to Dublin Bay, seeking a deeper meaning behind the Irish ballads he’s sung for years, and ...