History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
Remembrance Sunday: Nearly 1,000 Irish died serving US army in World War I
Online archive names over 30,000 Irish soldiers lost in World War I
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone was sentenced to death in 1798
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
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
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