History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
Gráinne Ní Mháille and the two laws that shaped an Irish legend
Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?
Why Easter is such an important holiday to the Irish
The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
The 1916 Easter Rising - How Irish America and Ireland saw it very differently
Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
My evening with Ned Kelliher, the jarvey of Tralee
Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
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