Last weekend marked the 20th anniversary of these masses in Cork city, which was celebrated with huge crowds at the Church of the Holy Cross in Mahon. After the event, the Polish community continued ...

In its latest Special Envoy appeal to Trump, the AOH cites a "disturbing rise in sectarian violence targeting members of the ...

On Saturdays, the Jewish day of rest, there is barely a quorum of 10 for prayers at the old synagogue in Northern Ireland’s capital city. But ...

Ice hockey in Belfast is a spectator sport with no deep history on either side of the Protestant-Catholic conflict. It’s a ...

A new “DNA atlas” of Ireland is revealing some of the surprising ways historic kingdoms have influenced populations on the island—and it offers the first genetic evidence that Vikings ...

The Dublin-based Iona Institute for Religion and Society has released a comprehensive report that highlights significant ...

Poet, musician, singer, wit, polemicist, journalist, biographer and letter-writer, Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 – February 25,1852) was one of the most brilliant figures of the Regency as well as the ...

Only 27% of the Irish public have a favourable view of the Catholic Church overall, a new survey from The Iona Insitute has ...

The Supreme Court has today begun hearing an appeal on the legality of Religious Education in Northern Ireland schools.

Northern Ireland was engulfed in a civil conflict known as The Troubles. The country—only a small section of the island of Ireland—was divided between two factions fighting over the Irish border: ...

In Ireland, a new study says attitudes towards the Church are “deeply divided” in the once deeply Catholic country.

Inspired by the American and French revolutions, the United Irishmen wanted a secular republic that separated church from ...