History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
5,000 year old settlement and tombs discovered on Sligo Leitrim border
Children dying roughly every second day in Irish Mother and Baby home
Michael Collins denied Catholic pogroms in Northern Ireland
Mairia Cahill’s dissident IRA links ignored, says McCartney sister
Ireland’s greatest baseball family - The O’Neills from Galway
Some Irish were worse than British during the Famine
The Irish carry the dark echoes of the Great Hunger
Landmark Irish scholarship on an American journalist's reporting of the Great Hunger
A look at books: Sinn Fein, the GPO and the 1916 Rising
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