History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
On This Day: JFK arrives in Ireland for historic visit in 1963
WATCH: A summertime swimming gala in Dublin nearly a century ago
WATCH: How glamorous was Galway in this 1957 tourism video?
On This Day: Éamon de Valera becomes President of Ireland in 1959
On This Day: President Kennedy delivers his iconic Berlin Wall speech in Germany
On This Day: Charles Stewart Parnell married Kitty O’Shea
WATCH: Fascinating footage of an Irish community gathering peat 100 years ago
On This Day: Ireland decriminalizes homosexuality in 1993
Irish mother’s letters to her son fighting in the US Civil War
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- 1 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 2 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 3 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 4 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 5 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 6 Summer takes a time-out! Cooler rainy days are on the way
- 7 The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
- 8 2027 inflation 'will be higher than forecast', warns Bank of Ireland
- 9 New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland