History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
WATCH: The Irish history of the song “Danny Boy”
Michael Collins' secret - who was in charge of the "Twelve Apostles" hit squad?
Listen to the earliest known recording of John F. Kennedy
The Antrim woman who gave us the Ballad of Roddy McCorley
Is “craic” a fake Irish word?
James Duffy, the Gweedore man who won the Victoria Cross
Remembering the Tipperary man who came 4th in the 1904 Olympic Games
On This Day: Bridget O'Driscoll was the first pedestrian killed in a car accident in 1896
“An American Irish Story” – growing up in the Bronx, New York
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- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening