Culture
Ireland's vibrant culture - from Irish customs and traditions, language, music, art, film and literature, Irish cuisine, and more.
Discover how to make an irresistible Guinness chocolate cake from scratch
Comedy horror "Widow's Bay" biggest winner at the Emmys, sweeping 14 awards
Culture Night: Experience Ireland’s heritage after hours at OPW sites across the country
Inspiring Irish and Irish American quotes
From Spanish Armada to World War II, explore the Wild Atlantic Way's sunken ships
"It’s happening": Oasis send Slane Castle rumors into overdrive
"I thought it was him" Cillian Murphy fans can't get enough of his lookalike son
A stumble into faeryland
Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
Most read
- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
Craic
WATCH: Steve Coogan's Irish Alan singing rebel songs on the BBC still has viewers in stitches
"Good craic" - Ireland named the friendliest country in Europe by Condé Nast Traveller readers
Flann O'Brien was born 115 years ago and his wit is as sharp as ever
Vatican exorcists once called for Halloween to be replaced with Holyween
Eat the biscuits and say you're "grand", the unwritten rules of Irish hospitality
Entertainment
Irish theater review: "The Hairy Ape" at the Irish Rep in NYC
Inside Michael Flatley’s family life as beloved wife Niamh is laid to rest
Howard Hughes told Jane Russell to give back the Derry baby and she said no
WATCH: Steve Coogan's Irish Alan singing rebel songs on the BBC still has viewers in stitches
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Food & Drink
Bord Bia's Irish fish pie is the one-dish dinner built for dark October evenings
Bord Bia's fish stew turns Irish whiting, mussels and prawns into a 45 minute dinner
Ireland's seafood chowder started as poor man's food and now has its own festival
Win a year of Irish breakfasts as Bewley's puts the full Irish pantry up for grabs
Guinness Brewery in Baltimore to "serve its final pint"
Education
Ireland's tricolour was woven in French silk and flew for just eight days in 1848
1,000-year-old manuscript recording St. Patrick's Ireland goes on display in Cork
Enoch Burke returns to school for new academic year
Annual college costs in Ireland revealed
Study Gaelic Literature and Culture online with University College Cork
Events