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These homemade Halloween costumes from a century ago are scarier than anything today
This traditional Irish name is trending in the UK and it has a lovely meaning
The Irish feast of the dead that Rome spent 500 years trying to stamp out
Ireland’s last Magdalene Laundry closed 30 years ago with 40 women still inside
O’Malley Clan Association to host virtual event with former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Kevin O'Malley
Halloween began in Ireland and the first jack o lanterns were carved from turnips
The 1847 letter that branded Famine soup sellers soul jobbers in the Cork Examiner
Say trick or treat as Gaeilge with 30 Irish words to use this Halloween
Most read
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- 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
History
Ireland’s answer to the Bayeux Tapestry is just an hour from London
LISTEN: "Making Empire" and the Irish with historian Jane Ohlmeyer
Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
From the Great Blasket to America - a memoir of the longest surviving islander
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Genealogy
