History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
Redmond O'Hanlon robbed Ulster for years and only a foster brother could stop him
How Percy French turned one overheard sigh into "The Emigrant's Letter"
Shergar was the world's most valuable racehorse until gunmen took him and he vanished
Ireland's tricolour was woven in French silk and flew for just eight days in 1848
Charles Boycott wrote to the Times 146 years ago today and lost his own name
The Dublin friars who stood by the rebels while Ireland's bishops condemned them
This 964-page book weighs 10 pounds and may be the greatest Irish history ever
How Ireland's 1848 rebellion against the British ended in a cabbage patch
On This Day: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, is born in 1903
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