Culture
Ireland's vibrant culture - from Irish customs and traditions, language, music, art, film and literature, Irish cuisine, and more.
Irish dance org CLRG has commenced its first disciplinary hearings
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Love, laughter, and lively music! Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival 2023 kicks off
The origins of anti-Irish jokes and how they impacted Irish worldwide
WATCH: World’s largest redhead festival 2023 is a fiery, fun fiesta
Help keep Ireland green by planting a tree with the Irish Heritage Tree
Seamus Heaney's life and work explored in new BBC documentary
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Garech Browne's archiving of Irish music and spoken word celebrated in new book
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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
Happy Halloween! The Irish origins of today's traditions
Irish names among the top 15 most mispronounced words in the US
LISTEN: Back on the Aran Islands with MacDara Ó Conaola
LISTEN: Ireland’s greatest seanchaí has the scary Halloween stories you have never heard
WATCH: Ireland's former state pathologist investigates the country's last witch trial
Food & Drink
Happy Halloween! The Irish origins of today's traditions
Original Irish Jack-o-Lanterns were made of turnips (and were truly terrifying)
Hidden in every Halloween barmbrack was a trinket that foretold your future
A Donegal chef’s pumpkin pie with a ginger nut base and a shot of Irish whiskey
The barmbrack cocktail that turns Ireland’s Halloween bread into a whiskey nightcap
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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