*Editor's Note: The following essay was written by Professor Gary Murphy of the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University as part of the Irish Institute of Boston College's guest essay ...

Ireland just made history by electing Catherine Connolly as its next president in a milestone victory that attracted international attention. Historian Van Gosse referred to her as “someone we can be ...

In the same week that violent anti-immigrant riots broke out in the western suburbs of Dublin, voters in the Republic of Ireland overwhelmingly elected Catherine Connolly, an independent leftist who ...

Mary Lou McDonald has definitively ruled herself out of a run for the presidency, stating her energy must stay focused on leading the opposition, particularly in holding the current coalition to ...

Brace yourselves, said Harry McGee in The Irish Times (Dublin): “Storm Catherine is about to hit the Irish political landscape.” Our next president will be the outspoken socialist politician Catherine ...

Ireland elected its 10th president over the weekend, the independent, left-wing candidate, Catherine Connolly. She will be inaugurated next month. The president in Ireland serves as the head of state, ...

DUBLIN (AP) - An Irish nationalist who has vowed to vote against Ireland's austerity plans has won a seat in parliament, election returns showed Friday, cutting Prime Minister Brian Cowen's majority ...

In his 2010 book The New Vichy Syndrome, Theodore Dalrymple presented an idea that had not yet spread widely beyond Britain and Ireland. “Perhaps it is Ireland that offers the most startling example ...

The Irish government has never published details on how it could afford to absorb Northern Ireland because the unknown factors and risks are too high, an economist has suggested.