When Annette McKay’s first grandson was born, she thought her mother would be over the moon. She had become a ...

McCullagh, a forensic archaeologist, directed a test dig at Tuam in 2016-17 that identified 35-week-old foetal remains and ...

In the 35 years between their deaths, another 794 babies and young children are known to have died there - and it is believed ...

A memorial has been unveiled in West Cork to remember a poignant forgotten chapter of the Irish Famine story — 14 orphan girls shipped from famine-ravaged Ireland to Australia under a ...

What caused the Irish famine? A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. Old Chapel Lane, Skibbereen, County ...

Hey, Irish Catholic Trump Supporters: Your People Were the Original Alien Enemies Irish Catholics who back Trump would do well to remember the origins of the Alien Enemies Act.

Before her harrowing exodus, a desperate Matilda Joyce went to an Irish workhouse where her hard labor was exchanged for one meal of thin gruel, bread and a bed shared with three others.

DUBLIN - Ireland's government oversaw workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once held thousands of women and teenage girls in unpaid labor and usually against their will, a fact-finding report ...

Every year descendants of the thousands of orphaned Irish teenage girls sent to Australia during the Great Famine gather in Melbourne to remember them ...

General Paints, the Celbridge-based paint manufacturer behind the brand Colourtrend, is to invest €5m into its headquarters, a former Famine-era workhouse.

The Truth Recovery Independent Panel is working to uncover the untold history of Northern Ireland’s mother and baby institutions, Magdalene Laundries, and workhouses and the pathways and ...