It is believed that King James II, followed by Charles I and then Oliver Cromwell, sold over 500,000 Irish Catholics into slavery throughout the 1600s. Irish men, women and children were forced to ...

Almost 1 in 10 Americans claim Irish heritage, according to the Census Bureau. But even the non-Irish celebrate Saint Patrick ...

A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

with the meat becoming Ireland's biggest export by the 1600s. Then, in the mid-1600s, England stopped importing the Irish beef due to supposed competition with their own beef production industry.

This hot Irish punch is a simple way to celebrate Irish ... traces some of the earliest punch recipes to the early 1600s when British sailors took part in the British East India Trade.

A man in England weeding his garden has made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: a stone inscribed with a 1,600-year-old message in a rare Irish alphabet. At first glance, the inscription looks like a ...

Saint Patrick died on March 17, 461, which later became the day we celebrate him and the Irish. America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration was in 1600 in the Spanish colony of present-day ...