Culture
Ireland's vibrant culture - from Irish customs and traditions, language, music, art, film and literature, Irish cuisine, and more.
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IrishCentral’s Book of the Month: “Hitching for Hope” by Ruairí McKiernan
The funny thing about being Irish – Ireland’s biggest comedians
Book your tickets: Celtic Illusion brings their Irish dance and magic stage show to Boston
Happy Mayo Day! Read President Biden's letter to Mayo people everywhere
The only American woman to win a World Irish Dancing Championships title this year
New Irish language documentary explores history of epidemics in Ireland
Mark Wahlberg calls on people to pray the Rosary with him
Happy Birthday Bridget Moynahan! To celebrate we've planted her a tree in Ireland
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- 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
Ten monsters Ireland gave the world, from Dracula to the Mayo vampire
The Irish men we think deserve People's Sexiest Man Alive
Do you have news from your Irish community? Share it with our global audience
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
Host of Irish actors to star in film about Irisk bookmakers Paddy Power’s rise in gambling industry
WATCH: Colin Farrell and Emma Fogarty’s marathon of friendship "Slightest Touch" is coming
A clockwork shamrock: The seven Irish connections in Stanley Kubrick’s "A Clockwork Orange"
On This Day: George Bernard Shaw, Dublin wit with a Nobel and an Oscar, dies in 1950
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Food & Drink
Donal Skehan’s pumpkin risotto is the best use for your leftover Halloween pumpkin
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
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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