History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
“She Moved Through the Fair” - Ireland’s most haunting love song is a ghost story nobody can claim
Seven Irish legends to tell your kids as the dark evenings close in
A disused Wicklow quarry holds the graves of 134 Germans who died on Irish soil
The Cork man who cured leprosy is one of five Irish names history forgot
Up to half of Washington’s army was Irish and the history books wrote them out
The Boston Strong Boy was the last bare knuckle king and the first boxing superstar
Seamus Heaney won the Nobel 31 years ago and his townlands still feel like home
The man who escaped slavery in Carolina and ended up living in Leinster House
Drop the fada from Éire and the name of the country means burden
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- 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