One of Ireland’s most enduring legends tells us of how O’Donoghue, who was once Lord of the Lakes of Killarney,...
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Glasnevin Cemetery, in Irish Reilig Ghlas Naíon, is a large cemetery in Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland which opened in 1832. It...
The legend of the Irish Leprechaun is a well-known one: little wee well-dressed men, often angry or drunk (or both)...
Blackhead Lighthouse, located only half an hour from Belfast and on the Causeway Coastal Route, was built in 1902. It...
It was autumn 1819 when the body of a 15-year old girl was found floating along the estuary of the...
Galley Head Lighthouse rises an imposing 53m above the roaring Atlantic ocean outside of Rosscarbery, County Cork, on the south...
January 12th marks the feast day of Saint Benedict Biscop (born about 628, Northumbria, died on Jan 12th 689/690). He...
We are in Ireland. The remote valley of Gleann Cholm Cille, in western Donegal, was already a holy site when...
Ever seen "carrageenan" at the end of an incomprehensible list of ingredients on the back of your ice cream tub...
A visit to Clare Island Lighthouse, Ireland, is absolutely something different.First, you can leave your car behind at Roonagh Pier...
Standing between idyllic Lough Swilly, one of Ireland’s very few glacial fjords, and sandy Mulroy Bay, lies Fanad Head Lighthouse....
We are on Hook Head at the tip of the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, in Ireland. Hook Lighthouse is...
Try to imagine: you're a normal worker, and you live in your pretty cottage just outside Dublin. It’s autumn and,...
In America, people associate Halloween with pumpkins, costumes, candy, and spooky stories or ghosts but, around the world, it could...
Built in the late 1840s, Ballycotton Lighthouse sits atop the unspoilt eponymous Island, in Ireland. On January 16, 1847 the...
The top of Glengesh Pass in County Donegal, Ireland, is breathtaking. Here you’re in one of the most remote corners...
Saint John's Eve, starting at sunset on 23 June, is the eve of celebration before the Feast Day of Saint...
We are in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast, Ireland. Milltown cemetery is a sprawling graveyard full of history, conflict and...
Have you heard of the theory that it storms on Good Friday in the afternoon between 12 p.m. and 3...
The sense of ancient mystery enshrouding the old walled cemetery in south Belfast has long fascinated historians and local people...
All we know that Dublin is the capital city of Ireland. Located on the East coast of the country, it...
All we known that March 17 is St Patrick's Day, a cultural and religious holiday celebrated every year in Ireland...
We are in Northern Ireland, along the banks of the River Lagan in Donegall Quay, Belfast. “The Big Fish,” also...
We are in Ireland, just outside of Galway City on the banks of the River Corrib that flows through the...
On the afternoon of 22nd April, 1874 a woman called Biddy Early died in her small, two-roomed, mud-walled cottage. Her...
The Irish brought the tradition of carving pumpkins into Jack O'Lantern to America. But, the original Jack O'Lantern was not...
We are within the grounds of The Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Ireland’s oldest school of law, founded in 1541...
