If Donald Trump is not removed from office, Abraham Lincoln’s republic cannot endure

Trump and Senate likely to reject move to turn US capital into nation’s 51st state

America Letter: Slavery and vying for jobs part of legacy along with warm relations

Founder positions social media giant as US internet firm keen to spread American values

Their new production company announced seven projects, including a film and a drama series

New book argues the abolitionist’s time in Ireland was a critical period in his evolution

Broadcaster will discuss disappearance of HMS Erebus during an expedition to find Northwest Passage

Free all-island event includes arts, music, history, heritage and science for people of all ages

I now relate to her as a mother, a lover, a woman in the world overwhelmed by heartbreaking beauty

Solas Nua’s Washington production aims to highlight abolitionist leader’s links to Ireland

America Letter: The US slave-turned-campaigner enjoyed a tour of Ireland in the 1840s

As civil war statues come down in the US, new uses are being sought for them

The president has breathed new life into everything from feminism to Senate hearings

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Tim Kaine talked about the how the Irish had suffered in America; but this needs to be put up against what the Irish inflicted

New book explores how J. Edgar Hoover’s ghostreaders monitored half of all known African American writers working between 1919 and 1972

Tom Chaffin, author of Giant’s Causeway, assesses the influence on the the anti-slavery campaigner of his time in poverty-ridden and religiously divided Ireland

‘Staging Intercultural Ireland’ brings together plays and interviews on inward migration

Review: Douglass, an escaped slave forced to flee the US in 1845, was so moved by the poverty he saw in Famine-era Ireland that he felt he must speak out against the causes of human suffering generally

Banned from studying law until after the Catholic Relief Act, Daniel O’Connell made his fortune and his reputation in that profession

Broadcaster and social justice campaigner to receive new Dublin civic award

Plaque unveiled to commemorate historic address by former slave as part of 1845 lecture tour of Ireland

McCann’s ‘TransAtlantic’ a remarkable tapestry of fiction and reality

Inspired in part by Alcock and Brown’s pioneering transatlantic flight, the Irish author’s new novel is his finest since ‘This Side of Brightness’

Colum McCann’s ‘Irish book’ is an emigrant’s take on Frederick Douglass and George Mitchell in Ireland