150-year-old rosary beads, remnants of a clay pipe and several iron nails have been found on the excavation site of a former pre-famine era Irish shanty town in Lowell, Massachusetts. UMass Lowell ...

Irish antiques salerooms are, invariably, filled with the trappings of the former gentry that flourished from the 18th to the early 21st century. But what about the lives of the plain people of ...

Powers, the Irish-American son of emigrants from Co Cork, died in 1998 aged 85. He had been a friend of JFK's since the 1940s and was appointed to the White House staff in 1961.