History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
The Irish priest who became a penpal with Jackie Kennedy
WATCH: Charming video visits Antrim lighthouses and the crews who maintained them
On This Day: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian leader, dies in the U.S.
On This Day: Sir Roger Casement sentenced to death
Why is Wicklow named the Garden County?
The Irish immigrant who penned New Zealand's national anthem
Remembering John Boyle O'Reilly on the anniversary of his birth in County Meath
Josephine Patricia Smith: Returning to the Irish Harp
Remembering the Irish NYPD patrolman who wrote one of Ireland's most loved ballads
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- 1 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 2 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 3 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 4 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 5 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
- 6 Summer takes a time-out! Cooler rainy days are on the way
- 7 The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
- 8 2027 inflation 'will be higher than forecast', warns Bank of Ireland
- 9 New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland