It has seen it all before. The town of Charleroi is no stranger to invasion. Over the centuries the French, Dutch, Spanish and Austrians have taken Charleroi. Today it is the English and the ...

The country described in Heinrich Böll's Irish Journal was everything Germany wasn't - and suggested a way of healing the wounds of history, writes Hugo Hamilton. In the summer of 1972, the same ...

And they tend to rewrite history to justify their actions. Here's a good example: In addition to the German speaking settlers in the Valley in the 1700s, were the Presbyterians from Ireland. They are ...

Explore IrishCentral's Irish-German World War II series here! The present-day alliance between the two nations dates back to several examples of Irish generosity and kindness in the immediate ...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Irish, African American connection linked by slavery, neighborhoods, ... disease-ridden and poverty-stricken place — was home to many Irish, Germans and African Americans.

Irish eyes are smiling, but it seems they are not often pointed toward the history books. On a sunny St. Patrick’s Day morning at McSorley’s Old Ale House, the oldest Irish bar in New York ...

The legend is this: King Frederick II of Prussia wanted his subjects to eat potatoes, introduced to Europe in the 16th ...

A PORTRAIT OF the last Battle of Britain pilot, John “Paddy” Hemingway, has been handed over at the National Museum of ...

There was also a political movement in the 1850s that emerged in the United States in response to rising immigration from Irish Catholics and German immigrants, also known as the Know-Nothing Party.

The Irish Derby Day card will be World Pool's first meeting at the Curragh and the third ever Irish World Pool fixture, following the 2021 and 2022 Irish Champions Day meetings from Leopardstown.