History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
How many places named Belfast are there in the US?
WATCH: Irish short film about an Irish father and son's Titanic twist of fate
On This Day: Oliver Cromwell sets sail to Ireland in 1649
Is the Guinness Book of World Records Irish?
A deadly “great blaze” - the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918
On This Day: Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol received its first prisoners in 1796
On this day: 21 French Girl Guides survived a plane crash in Wicklow
On This Day: Father Michael McGivney, the Founder of the Knights of Columbus was born
On This Day: John Holland, inventor of the submarine, passed away in 1914
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- 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
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- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening