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The priciest gift in the department database was the €944.70 paid out for thirty bottles of Irish whiskey for members of the ...
The massively successful pop star—who is back with a new album after a period of turmoil—is one of TIME's 100 most ...
Tea towels, flag pins, a framed copy of the Proclamation of Independence and an Aran sweater were among the gifts given out ...
Proclamation will be read by an Officer from the Defence Forces at Dublin's GPO this Sunday to commemorate the Easter Rising.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin wore a smile as wide as the Jack Lynch tunnel last Sunday when Cork captured the National League ...
It's 1934 and the new US envoy to Ireland gets to his feet to speak after a lavish State dinner when he suddenly collapses ...
British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop west-east transatlantic flight from St John’s, Newfoundland, to Clifden in Co Galway. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp ...
Bernadette Smyth LaFrance has been elected the first woman president of the Knights of St. Patrick, which was established in 1878. In a landmark moment for one of America’s oldest Irish ...
President Trump says the “guts” shown by Rory McIlroy in coming back from “what could have been a tragedy” at the US Masters was “amazing” – as he congratulated the Northern Irish golfer on his ...
John O’Brien has been charged with wire fraud and conspiracy in what prosecutors call a “traveling conman fraud group” that swindled R.I. and Mass. homeowners.
Theodore Roosevelt expressed his views on immigrants and being an American. He said, in part, “….the person….becom[es] in ...