Though only 1 in 9 people in the U.S. claim Irish heritage, about 61% of Americans plan to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, according to the National Retail Federation. Wearing green, hosting a ...

The interactive map below shows each state’s population percentage of Irish or partially Irish residents. Of any county in the U.S., it’s Cook County, which covers Chicago and the surrounding ...

A team led by Gianpiero Cavalleri at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin pieced together the new map using the genetics of 536 Irish individuals. The work, published in Scientific Reports ...

The interactive map below shows each state’s population percentage of Irish or partially Irish residents. Of any county in the U.S., it’s Cook County, which covers Chicago and the surrounding ...

An artistic map of Ireland that features Irish-language placenames has been crafted by Isaac Dushku - "Lord of Maps" - in the style of "Lord of the Rings" author J. R. R. Tolkien. Isaac Dushku ...

The ancient Irish settlement Eblana on the map is believed to be the same site as modern-day Dublin. According to James Hardiman’s “History of Galway,” Ptolemy handed down names of several ...