History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
Search is on for people born in Ireland before the 1926 Census
On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
How the Irish ward off evil spirits at Halloween
Ireland's strangest and scariest ghost sightings and apparitions
The traditional matchmaking games Irish girls would play at Halloween
On This Day: Ireland's last Magdalene Laundry closes in 1996
Interesting facts about the Irish and Halloween
On This Day: Famine “soul-jobbing” condemned in Cork Examiner letter, 1847
Ireland's most famous haunted pubs
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- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
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- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail