A new book by the historian Ian Kumekawa tracks the varied career of a gigantic boat in an era of profound economic change.

Once considered a saloon or rec-room past-time by many, snooker has long been serious business in the U.K. and much of the ...

Between rising sea levels from the climate crisis, a history of nuclear testing causing radioactive pollution and population ...

Belfast writer, Ben Collins, who hails from a Unionist backgrounds, argues that a unity referendum is inevitable and that ...

Five reasons why previous non-European papal candidates have fallen short - A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that ...

During the second half of the 1980s, Oxfam ran an extensive food aid program among Beja nomads in Sudan’s arid Red Sea Hills.

In September 1814, during the War of 1812, British naval forces launched a relentless bombardment of Fort McHenry in ...

In his book Troubled Times, Peter Hadden, one of the founders of our political tradition in Ireland, begins with a statement ...