History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
On This Day: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, is born in 1903
On This Day: Five die in Guildford pub bombings 1974
Ghost stories from one of Ireland's most haunted buildings
On This Day: Irish tenor Frank Patterson born in County Tipperary
On This Day: Bob Geldof, the Irish founder of Live Aid, is born in 1951
Ghost of young girl haunts Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel, claim guests and staff
The cult founded in the basement of a haunted Irish castle
One of Ireland's most tragic Irish ghost stories - The White Lady of Kinsale
The terrifying ghost story of Lady Beresford's death sentence
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- 1 Experiencing Titanic's last port of call in Cobh, Ireland
- 2 What did the Titanic passengers eat?
- 3 On This Day: Irish woman shoots Benito Mussolini in the face
- 4 How the 1916 Easter Rising gave way to Ireland's War of Independence
- 5 The weird and wonderful place names around Ireland
- 6 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 7 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 8 James Connolly and the fire of the Easter Rising
- 9 Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders