History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
On This Day: St. Brendan the Navigator, an early transatlantic voyager, died in 587
5 discoveries and inventions you never knew were made by the Irish
Irish songs that celebrate when Nelson’s Pillar was blown up
Irish American helps rediscover forgotten Co Down castle
On This Day: Msgr. Edward Flanagan, the Irish founder of Boys Town, passed away
Luke Kelly songs that still define Irish folk music
Lance-Corporal Michael O’Leary, a true Irish WWI hero
Facts about Killarney on The Ring of Kerry
The top Irish inventions that changed the world
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- 1 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 2 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 3 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 4 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 5 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 6 Summer takes a time-out! Cooler rainy days are on the way
- 7 The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
- 8 2027 inflation 'will be higher than forecast', warns Bank of Ireland
- 9 New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland