History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
On This Day: Handel's "Messiah" premiered in Fishamble Street, Dublin
On This Day: We celebrate Samuel Beckett's birthday with some superb quotes from this literary genius
On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
On This Day: The US Civil War begins in 1861
Owen Roe O’Neill – The victor of Benburb
Titanic engineers worked to keep lights on "until the bitter end," new research shows
British government says Troubles archival projects will "seek to build public confidence"
On This Day: The Titanic's tragic last stop in Cobh, Co Cork
The three famous Pegs of Irish history
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- 1 Experiencing Titanic's last port of call in Cobh, Ireland
- 2 WATCH: Irish short film about an Irish father and son's Titanic twist of fate
- 3 WATCH: Liam Neeson takes his Easter Bunny audition very seriously
- 4 The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
- 5 Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
- 6 Darina Allen's Irish lemon tart recipe
- 7 Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
- 8 On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
- 9 All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?