History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
6,000-year-old tomb goes on display at Ulster Folk Museum
Unreleased Sinéad O’Connor song to feature in Magdalene Laundries drama tonight
How to find out if you have Irish Viking ancestry
A RMS Titanitc pantry key is expected to fetch $100k+ at auction
TG4 documentary tells story of couple who helped end Ireland's contraception ban
This month in history: The Spanish land at Kinsale in 1601
Dublin Viking dig uncovers Ireland’s first prison cells
Belfast to host 2024 week-long celebration of abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Irish Famine artwork to go on display at the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany
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- 3 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
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- 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