Culture
Ireland's vibrant culture - from Irish customs and traditions, language, music, art, film and literature, Irish cuisine, and more.
Extraordinary life of the woman who made Irish dance as we know it
Kevin Fortuna’s “The Dunning Man” explores Irish America, scars and all
Carlow farmer herds sheep with drone (VIDEO)
Three Irish guys driving from Ireland to Beijing for their friend’s wedding (VIDEO)
Last dance for Michael Flatley as he says farewell to Dad (VIDEOS)
Replica famine ship cost Irish taxpayers $16 million
Irish dance group Fusion Fighters take to Moscow streets to inspire (VIDEO)
Thousands of hairy Irish turnout for Viking auditions in Dublin (PHOTOS)
Major American events for 1916 centenary announced by Irish government
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- 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
Ten monsters Ireland gave the world, from Dracula to the Mayo vampire
The Irish men we think deserve People's Sexiest Man Alive
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Turnip lanterns, false faces and a bin bag for a costume, Halloween in Ireland
The bonfires and black cats the Irish used to keep the fairies away on Samhain
Entertainment
Food & Drink
Irish chef’s smashed sweet potatoes are the Thanksgiving side that beats the mash
Mulled wine and bonfire soup are what the fifth of November was made for
Give your Thanksgiving table a honey-spiced Brussels sprouts upgrade
Donal Skehan’s pumpkin risotto is the best use for your leftover Halloween pumpkin
Happy Halloween! The Irish origins of today's traditions
Education
Say trick or treat as Gaeilge with 30 Irish words to use this Halloween
The Irish language was banned and fined out of public life but never died
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
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