A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

A team of volunteers are entering the final phase of the project which will see all records of county council-controlled graveyards completed ...

Down in Ballydehob, 100 kilometres away, Kevin Ireland was expecting me and it was already midday. He did not drive and had no phone, although he told me I could ring Jack O’Connor at his bookshop in ...

And that’s another reason why I left old Skibbereen. By contrast, Holt McDougal’s US history textbook The Americans devotes a flat two sentences to “The Great Potato Famine.” ...

A contract has been signed for the Skibbereen Road Realignment Project in recent days with construction set to begin in May 2025. Cork County Council has appointed contractor McGinty & O’Shea ...

All-Ireland PPS Senior A Final: Skibbereen Community School 2-10 Loreto College Cavan 3-6 Leah Carey of Skibbereen Community School lifts the cup With seconds to go in this brilliant Lidl All ...

The unmarked graves of thousands of people who died during the Irish famine in Belfast are finally set to be officially marked. More than 170 years after the first bodies were laid to rest ...

Aid workers say the restrictions have had the biggest impact in the famine-stricken areas around the city of al-Fashir, the army's besieged final holdout in Darfur, as well as in nearby Tawila ...