Culture
Ireland's vibrant culture - from Irish customs and traditions, language, music, art, film and literature, Irish cuisine, and more.
Voices from the Irish Famine: Declan O'Rourke's book "The Pawn Broker's Reward"
Ted Smyth to be honored by Irish Business Organization of New York
Exhibition of artefacts celebrates St. Columba's 1,500th birthday
LIVE NOW: Live Irish music from the Guinness Storehouse today!
Co Down nurse calls for fair pay while strutting Miss Universe stage
WATCH: Six-year-old Clare boy inspires with a message of hope for Christmas
Ireland’s most “at risk” historic building must be saved
Leap into the New Year: 5 reasons why you need to visit Ireland
The Irish roots of Anne Rice, the queen of vampire novels
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- 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
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- 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
Bono, The Corrs and the memory of Glen Hansard power a Christmas of giving for Dublin homelessness charity
WATCH: Irish boy goes on a hunt for an elf in Tesco’s magical new Christmas ad
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"
Food & Drink
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
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
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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