Get ready to ignite your Irish spirit! The celebration that needs almost no introduction is slated for August 2 nd through August 4 th. The Dublin Irish Festival has become one of the largest ...

A unique concept is rooted in the Irish psyche—respectability. Respectability can mean many things, but it meant only one thing among Irish Famine immigrants: financial security. Whether working as a ...

Kilgubbin won’t be found on modern-day maps of Chicago, but there once was a place known by that name — a settlement of Irish immigrants on the city’s North Side. In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was ...

Here, in the home of the only upside down-traffic light in the United States - a tangible reminder of the rebellious spirit in the heart of many of us that trace ancestry back to the Emerald Isle - ...

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan’s art commission hits a hot button. “I thought they might say, ‘We don’t want to wade in these waters’ — and the opposite happened,” the painter said. By Arthur Lubow and ...