Culture
Ireland's vibrant culture - from Irish customs and traditions, language, music, art, film and literature, Irish cuisine, and more.
What is it that makes Guinness so delicious?
Michael Flatley’s mother’s last wish to be buried in Ireland
Irish American couple once on Death Row now spend their time healing in Galway
Liam Neeson wants to put Dublin movie industry on the map
Top Irish dance influencers to follow in 2017
Watch out in 2017 for these five most remarkable Irish women
Patriots Day shows Boston’s heroes at their best on the city’s worst day
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The five funniest Irish stories of 2016
Most read
- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 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
Vatican exorcists once called for Halloween to be replaced with Holyween
Eat the biscuits and say you're "grand", the unwritten rules of Irish hospitality
“Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
Decoding Gen Z: The top slang words Irish teens are Googling right now
Entertainment
Rod Stewart once stunned a Las Vegas crowd with the Irish rebel ballad "Grace"
"Danny Boy" is Ireland's most famous ballad but an English lawyer wrote the words
LISTEN: Vicki Notaro quit journalism with no book deal and now has three bestsellers
Jim Carrey secretly marries long-time partner in private ceremony
Sarah Jessica Parker channels balletcore in pretty Irish design for date night
Food & Drink
Chef Michael Gilligan's Halloween recipes come with a side of Irish ghost stories
Turn the classic Irish Rice Krispie bun into a giant chocolate Halloween spider
Colcannon is the Halloween dish Irish families hid fortunes in for centuries
The Irish-American family whose basement tea business now supplies royal palaces
Dublin's BAR 1661 makes history as first Irish venue on world's best bars list
Education
1,000-year-old manuscript recording St. Patrick's Ireland goes on display in Cork
Enoch Burke returns to school for new academic year
Annual college costs in Ireland revealed
Study Gaelic Literature and Culture online with University College Cork
Ed Sheeran brings his charity home to Ireland with new cross-border music project
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