History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
On this day in 1969 Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize he never wanted
The amazing story behind the Irish ballad “I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen”
Rare 1916 Proclamation saved by a woman of the Rising goes on display in Boston
More emigrants left Derry in 1883 than in the worst year of the Great Hunger
Ireland’s real ghost villages are far eerier than anything Halloween can conjure up
Irish tenants fought off police with boiling water and cow dung during the Land War
Titanic’s last dinner ran to ten courses while steerage ate gruel and cabin biscuits
Irish pubs were shut on St. Patrick’s Day until the 1970s and only a dog show poured
Danny Greene ran Cleveland’s Irish mob until a car bomb caught him at the dentist
Most read
- 1 On This Day: IRA bomb kills 12 at Enniskillen Remembrance Day service in 1987
- 2 WATCH: Fall in love with vintage yet vibrant Derry in this 1968 travelogue
- 3 Armistice Day: Irish World War I soldier describes his experiences
- 4 More than 30,000 Irish soldiers lost in World War I named in online archive
- 5 Exploring what remains of Ireland’s ancient royal capitals
- 6 Charlie Chaplin once visited Big Jim Larkin behind bars in Sing Sing prison
- 7 On this Day: Bram Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," was born in 1847
- 8 Fine Gael says the public will pay billions for a United Ireland
- 9 A Dublin burger joint has been named second best in the world