A massive archaeological discovery in County Wicklow suggests that ancient Irish people lived in dense urban prehistoric ...

Medieval legend claims that an Irish race called the Fir Bolg originated from Greece. What does evidence reveal about this ...

History tells us who we are and how the past has shaped us. This is a commonly expressed truism, but in Ireland’s case, our ...

Planning your next trip to the Emerald Isle requires knowing when the local shops close and the festivals begin. Ireland ...

Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics (The History Press, £14.99) Doreen McBride delves into a variety of ...

Tom Delaney, who runs Ould Crafty from a small home in Mayo, says he feels a ‘responsibility’ to keep the ancient tradition ...

Experts discovered a large settlement in Co Wicklow, which is believed to have been built 2,000 years before the Vikings came ...

The excavations revealed that the settlement was inhabited during the late Bronze Age and continued to be used in the early ...

From big-name authors Colson Whitehead, George Saunders and Maggie O'Farrell to debuts and non-fiction, these are the titles ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

In Ireland, we are no less hungry for numbers than the ancient Greeks. The last week of 2025 and the start of 2026 abound ...

The Celtic languages spoken today – namely Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton – all descend from Celtic languages once spoken across Britain and Ireland in antiquity. While the ...