“If we just played Irish music, we’d have our core, just as if we just performed African music we’d find a base of people who’d love it,” says founding member and multi-instrumentalist ...

Many mixed-race Irish people who grew up in Mother and Baby homes are still looking for answers about their families and their heritage. In the middle of the 20th century, thousands of students ...

The African American Irish Diaspora Network (AAIDNET) is connecting African Americans with their Irish roots through shared heritage, culture and ancestry. Black individuals have played a ...

Today, approximately 38% of Blacks in the U.S. have some Irish ancestry, estimates the African American Irish Diaspora Network (AAIDN) organization, which “fosters relationships between African ...

“Having afro hair in Ireland usually means you don’t get the luxury of going to salons. I know that 99.9 per cent of hairdressers will be unable to do my hair,” says O’ Neill.

African Americans reconnect with Irish roots, uncovering ancestry and embracing culture By Isaac Ocean May 17, 2024 2:31 pm Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / NYCKellyWilliams ...

People of African descent greeted him on the street, claiming him as one of their own. But his own searches continued to yield little about his heritage.

That's the basic premise of Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a new graphic novel by David Lester and Paul Buhle, adapted from Marcus Rediker's book, The Many-Headed ...

“As diverse cultures, we struggled as migrants. That struggle led us both to the White House,” writes MARTIN O’MALLEY AS BARACK Obama visits Ireland for the first time as presiden… ...

It draws on data gathered between April 2023 and January of last year from a national online survey of 172 people who identified either as African or of African descent or Brazilian; 30 in-depth ...