History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
"Buried silently and sadly" - The Irish Famine dead of 1847
National Archives takes Census 1926 on tour across Ireland
John Lennon was getting ready to retire to Co Mayo before his tragic death
Lord Haw Haw: Hitler's infamous Irishman hanged for treason
William Butler Yeats and the women who shaped his poetry
The prolific bard of Erin, Thomas Moore
New York exhibit celebrates the Irish roots of Princess Grace Kelly
Was the real King Arthur Irish?
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