
History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: The only Irish citizen to die at Auschwitz
Pagan roots of St. Brigid’s Well in the West of Ireland
On This Day: “The Playboy of the Western World” opens at Dublin's Abbey Theater
The Limerick man who became the mayor of Houston, Texas
On This Day: Willie Clancy, Irish piper and folklorist, died in 1973
On This Day: Arthur Guinness, founder of the Dublin brewery, died in 1803
On This Day: Queen Victoria, Ireland's "Famine Queen," died in 1901
Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising
AIHS marks 180th anniversary of Ireland's Great Hunger with lecture series
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