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'Road-Bowling' is a County Armagh summer tradition wherein competitors throw "bullets" down rural roads with many spectators onlooking and placing bets on the winners.
If you have ancestry in county Limerick, you are in luck as there is a vast range of genealogical material available online to help you in your research. Here are the top 10 websites for researching your Limerick roots.
Remembering the words and quotes of Irish writer James Joyce, whose life itself would make for a fascinating book. There is much about the author unknown to even his most ardent fans.
Campaigners are calling for the Hunterian Museum in London to release the stolen remains of 18th-century Irish “giant” and return the skeleton to Ireland for burial.
New research on 25 ancient Icelanders shows that the Irish women captured by the Vikings and brought to Iceland had less of an influence of the genetics of the modern-day Icelandic population than the Vikings themselves.
Titanic survivor, Englishman Charles Herbert Lightoller not only lived following the infamous sinking but had already had an extraordinary life full of high seas disasters and a search for gold during the Klondike Gold Rush before the Titanic.
On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
From the Cliffs of Moher to the Burren - stunning views to ancient mythology these are the tourist attractions that will make your vacation in Ireland worthwhile.
