History
Learn about Irish history, folklore, and mythology - from the ancient times of glory to the modern Ireland.
Jane Austen’s Irish lover
The real Irish woman behind one of the most iconic images from Ireland's Famine
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
The ghostly soldier of Crolly: The haunting of Donegal’s historic distillery
The Irish round tower built by immigrants in Massachusetts
On This Day: Turlough O'Carolan, Ireland's last bard, died in 1738
The disturbing origins of the Irish Famine term “take the soup”
WATCH: Safe cycling through Dublin’s City Centre more than 70 years ago
John Millington Synge: Irish playwright, poet, and rebel
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