History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
On This Day: The Titanic sinks but passengers remained calm
In 1912, my Irish grandmother was booked to sail aboard The Titanic
Douglass Week to start in Belfast on Sunday
Faces of the Titanic: Mary Burns died while tending to the needs of others
Ireland’s National Archives to unveil free new “Society & State” exhibition this month
WATCH: When William Butler Yeats oversaw Ireland's "beastly" coin design
A history in Ireland's dry stone walls
Winston Churchill's surprising views on a United Ireland
Faces of the Titanic: William Burke, Irish hero who saved a woman's life
Most read
- 1 Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
- 2 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 3 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
- 5 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 6 Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
- 7 Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
- 8 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 9 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork