History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
The mysterious history of the song “She Moved Through the Fair”
Celebrating the beloved song "The Foggy Dew" and its history
"Deeply offensive" - Bloody Sunday footage used in British Tory leader's pro-veteran video
On This Day: Trinity College Dublin’s gate opened to Irish Catholics in 1794
Irish song “Garryowen” played before Custer's Native American massacres is banned
Eleven moments that changed Ireland’s history
How Irish folklore inspired the black cat superstition
The true history of “It's a Long Way to Tipperary”
Ireland's ancient Celtic festival of Bealtaine, a celebration of summer's arrival
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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