When a hunger strike began in Cork in August 1920, in the words of historian William Murphy, “a ghoulish, fatal contest unfolded”. Three prisoners died in October: Michael Fitzgerald, Joseph Murphy ...

The new romantics ruled the charts, with the Human League and Adam & The Ants scoring some of the year’s biggest hits.

Donor from Ontario, Canada, brings 1859 silver samovar honoring Famine hero Dr. Dan Donovan back to Skibbereen Heritage ...

Nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai ratified their new contracts "by overwhelming majority" and are returning to work, according to a Feb. 11 announcement. A vote on a tentative agreement with ...

More than 15,000 nurses at three major New York City hospital systems have been on strike since Jan. 12, marking the largest nurses’ walkout in city history. The strike entered its fourth week Monday, ...

More Kaiser Permanente employees have joined tens of thousands of others in a strike now entering its third week. About 30,000 non-physician clinical workers represented by The United Nurses ...