History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
The Irish American woman who grabbed an oar and told her Titanic lifeboat to turn back
These homemade Halloween costumes from a century ago are scarier than anything today
Ireland’s last Magdalene Laundry closed 30 years ago with 40 women still inside
The Cork mayor who starved himself to death in 1920 to shake an empire
The Irish feast of the dead that Rome spent 500 years trying to stamp out
The Halloween games Irish girls once played to find out who they would marry
The 1847 letter that branded Famine soup sellers soul jobbers in the Cork Examiner
Halloween began in Ireland and the first jack o lanterns were carved from turnips
One more whiskey saved New York’s Italian Mafia from an Irish gang massacre
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