History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
On This Day: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, is born in 1903
On This Day: Five die in Guildford pub bombings 1974
Ghost stories from one of Ireland's most haunted buildings
On This Day: Irish tenor Frank Patterson born in County Tipperary
On This Day: Bob Geldof, the Irish founder of Live Aid, is born in 1951
Ghost of young girl haunts Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel, claim guests and staff
The cult founded in the basement of a haunted Irish castle
One of Ireland's most tragic Irish ghost stories - The White Lady of Kinsale
The terrifying ghost story of Lady Beresford's death sentence
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