History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
On This Day: Easter Rising hero Padraig Pearse born in 1879
A year of reckoning - Irish conscription during World War I
English Spy, Irish Eye: Capt John Baxter's map of Elizabethan espionage in Ireland
WATCH: A school trip to the Dublin Zoo nearly 100 years ago
On This Day: John F. Kennedy declared winner of 1960 US Presidential Election
On This Day: IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, 12 killed
On this Day: Bram Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," was born in 1847
On This Day: Irish troops killed in the Niemba massacre in Congo
Mick the Miller: The most successful greyhound of all time
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