History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
Extraordinary story of Titanic’s second officer Charles Herbert Lightroller
Luck of the Irish: Louth man survived two major shipwrecks including The Titanic
Ireland's only Boston Marathon winner serves as race starter 50 years on
On This Day: The Titanic sinks but passengers remained calm
Douglass Week to start in Belfast on Sunday
Faces of the Titanic: Mary Burns died while tending to the needs of others
Ireland’s National Archives to unveil free new “Society & State” exhibition this month
WATCH: When William Butler Yeats oversaw Ireland's "beastly" coin design
A history in Ireland's dry stone walls
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- 1 Irish Genealogy website offers free access to decades of birth, marriage and death records
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 5 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 6 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 7 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 8 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
- 9 Artist Paul Henry's thoughts on the enchanting West of Ireland