Michael J. Gallagher was born in Scranton in 1898. He was born into an Irish family of coal miners and was destined to follow in their footsteps. From father to son, the skills and the grit were ...

JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” but a trawl of genealogy records has found no evidence linking the US vice-president to Ireland. In an attempt to ...

The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer,” takes readers through the civil rights era, Northern Ireland.

TRUMP’S TARIFF BOMBSHELL: Markets are surging. America’s trade partners are gleeful. Millions of U.S. businesses can’t ...

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 ...

Approximately 187,000 miners, who represented about three-quarters of the country’s coal-mining workforce, went on strike to fight the closures Thousands of officers were drafted in to police ...

Not since the 1970s has a Montgomery County father left his family in the morning to descend into a coal mine. But The Smith Sisters and Ricky Cox sang about the old dread for miners, their ...

Then came the coal-fired power plants, built throughout northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico to power progress in distant Western cities. The plants would play their own role in the ...

Benham Inn is a former schoolhouse that educated the children of coal miners (Annabel Grossman / The Independent) At Benham Schoolhouse Inn a sweet elderly lady greets me, warns me not to feed the ...

1:22 PM UTC Glencore restructures coal assets under single Australian unit Glencore said on Thursday it had restructured its coal business by moving its recently acquired Canadian mines into a ...

Remarkable as a landscape shaped over three centuries of coal extraction from the 1700s to the 1900s ... places of remembrance and celebration of the Basin’s history and its miners. Criterion (ii): ...