The Legend of Sean: A 600-Year-Old Leprechaun in Ireland
Sean the Leprechaun had been living in Ireland for 600 years. He was the oldest and wisest of all the leprechauns in the land. With…
Sean the Leprechaun had been living in Ireland for 600 years. He was the oldest and wisest of all the leprechauns in the land. With…
In the early morning of 31 July 1972, the British army initiated Operation Motorman in response to Bloody Friday, a series of bombs that occurred…
Croagh Patrick is a mountain in county Mayo also known as The Reek or Patrick’s sacred mountain. Each year thousands of people climb Croagh Patrick…
Lá Bealtaine is the festival marking the beginning of summer and celebrated along with three other seasons – Imbolc (beginning of spring) and Lughnasadh (beginning…
One of the old customs of May Day in Ireland was to protect your home and heard of cows from the Cailleachs (hags or old…
May Day was considered important in the Irish calendar and dates as far back as pagan times. The day marks the coming of summer and…
Sheelah’s Day falls on March 18, the day after St Patrick’s Day, once recognized all over Ireland as part of the old Irish calendar. The…
Bloody Sunday occurred on January 30, 1972, in the city of Derry when the parachute regiment of the British army opened fire on a Civil…
Easter is one of the most important religious holidays celebrated around the world. In Ireland, it is a time of great significance and has been…
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed on 6 December 1921 in London between the British government and an Irish delegation. The agreement marked the end of…
Bloody Sunday occurred in Dublin on 21 November 1920 and would mark a turning point for the War of Independence leaving 31 people dead in…
In October 1917 a young boy of fifteen years put himself forward to fight for the freedom of Ireland with the Irish Republican Army (IRA)….
POBLACHT NA hÉIREANN THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of…
Joseph Plunkett was born into a wealthy Catholic family in the city of Dublin. In his early years, Joseph contracted tuberculosis and although he was…
Thomas Clarke was a leading member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and main planner of the 1916 Easter Rising alongside Seán MacDiarmada. Thomas James Clarke was…
Patrick Pearse was born in Dublin on 10th November 1879 and whose full name is Patrick Henry Pearse or as probably preferred in Irish Pádraic…
By the early 1900’s more and more nationalist groups appeared in Ireland inspired by the Irish cultural rival of the late 1800s and the thought…
In the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, the story of the Salmon of Knowledge tells how Fionn Mac Cumhail became the greatest man of all…
By the late 1800’s Ireland was in a state of disarray. It already suffered a major famine that has a major impact on the Irish population….
The Cashel Man is a bog body discovered in Ireland in August 2011. He is the oldest fleshed bog body to have been found anywhere…
Mass migration of the Irish peaked during the Great Famine (An Gorta Mor) or commonly known as the Potato Famine of 1845-1850. The Famine in Ireland With…
Between the years of 1845 and 1852 famines struck Ireland along with disease that would leave 1,00,000 Irish people dead and just as many leaving the country….
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was an Irish revolutionary. Born on 18 September 1831 devoted over 60 years of his life to Irish independence. Born in Reenascreena,…
Irish history in the 1800’s saw the introduction of the Act of Union after the Irish Rebellion of 1798 by the United Irishmen and Wolfe Tone.