History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
On This Day: George Bernard Shaw wins the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925
Ancient monument found beneath the Hill of Tara provided more insight into Ireland's prehistoric past
Irish soldiers who died in World War I listed in new online database
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone was sentenced to death in 1798
On This Day: Easter Rising hero Padraig Pearse born in 1879
A year of reckoning - Irish conscription during World War I
English Spy, Irish Eye: Capt John Baxter's map of Elizabethan espionage in Ireland
WATCH: A school trip to the Dublin Zoo nearly 100 years ago
On This Day: John F. Kennedy declared winner of 1960 US Presidential Election
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