History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
What's your Irish County? County Tyrone
WATCH: Life of a Tipperary Road Worker in rural Ireland, 1968
WATCH: A heartfelt tribute to Cork City and the River Lee from 1965
What's your Irish County? County Sligo
What's your Irish County? County Roscommon
Roscommon's Lady Betty - thief, murderer, and executioner
Famine era letters to the US document the horrors of Ireland's Great Hunger
Have you heard of Ireland's blind harper?
The haunted castles of County Offaly
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