History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
How the Catholic church misjudged the Easter Rising
John Wayne’s love of Ireland and "The Quiet Man"
How Dunkirk saved Ireland
Is the Celtic symbol for new beginnings entirely made up?
The sack of Baltimore: Ireland’s forgotten pirate tragedy
The Irish roots behind America's Groundhog Day
In 1937 a woman in Dundalk was sentenced to prison for kissing in public
The unlucky internees during Ireland's WWII "Emergency"
On This Day: James Joyce's “Ulysses” was published for the first time in 1922
Most read
- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening