The first ever steeplechase took place in Cork in 1752, when two huntsmen decided to settle a wager on horseback ...

Mr. O’Toole is the author, most recently, of “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958” and a columnist for The Irish Times. He wrote from Dublin. Ireland’s current condition ...

Exhumation of a mass grave has begun in Tuam, Ireland, at the site of a former mother and baby home — one of several that once operated across the country. The burial site, which could hold the ...