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From window tax to hats - Taxing Ireland through history
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One of Ireland’s greatest medieval treasures is now available online
Celtic chariot discovered by amateur with metal detector could win him a $1.3 million reward
800 Irish famine dead to be memorialized with Celtic Cross on Boston island
How Patriots quarterback great Tom Brady found his Irish roots
De Valera escaped English prison with a key in a cake 100 years ago today
Most read
- 1 On This Day: The Titanic's tragic last stop in Cobh, Co Cork
- 2 Documentary reveals incredible colorized footage of the Titanic
- 3 Savage! Funny phrases Irish use that Americans don’t
- 4 On This Day: The US Civil War begins in 1861
- 5 Faces of the Titanic: Irish woman Bridget Delia Bradley tried to climb back onto sinking ship
- 6 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
- 7 First oil tankers leave Whitegate as Gardaí clash with protestors at the site
- 8 WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
- 9 On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
History
The dazzling life of Mabelle Gilman Corey
On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
On This Day: The US Civil War begins in 1861
Faces of the Titanic: Irish woman Bridget Delia Bradley tried to climb back onto sinking ship
Documentary reveals incredible colorized footage of the Titanic
Genealogy