Culture
Ireland's vibrant culture - from Irish customs and traditions, language, music, art, film and literature, Irish cuisine, and more.
LISTEN: The greatest songs of The Troubles in Northern Ireland
LISTEN: Irish author Louise O’Neill on fame, fiction and the cost of being watched
The best summer food festivals to take a bite out of in 2026
Irish emigration songs that will stir your heart
LISTEN: The most requested songs in Irish pubs
On This Day: Irish American crooner Bing Crosby is born
History of the beloved "Song for Ireland"
Máiréad Ní Ghráda: Bringing Irish to the Masses
People in stitches over new spam email that ‘shifts into fake Irish accent’
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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
The Halloween games Irish girls once played to find out who they would marry
Say trick or treat as Gaeilge with 30 Irish words to use this Halloween
Four Halloween games that need nothing more than apples, flour and a torch
Calling all Brigids! Irish search is on for Kildare gathering
Saint Patrick and the publican: A fantastic challenge in Connemara
Entertainment
Richard Harris turned down Dumbledore until his granddaughter threatened him
Irish language body express concern about BBC Northern Ireland cuts
LISTEN: The “secret sauce” of CIE Tours' success with Managing Director Stephen Cotter
WATCH: Joanne McNally brings Jimmy Fallon’s audience to its feet on "Tonight Show" debut
Andrew Scott could make Oscar history by competing against himself
Food & Drink
The story behind the iconic Guinness Christmas ad still our favourite after 22 years
The perfect Irish Halloween barmbrack recipe
Win a year of Irish breakfasts as Bewley's puts the full Irish pantry up for grabs
Titanic’s last dinner ran to ten courses while steerage ate gruel and cabin biscuits
Halloween began in Ireland and these ancient traditions are still with us
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
Events
