Whether you are planning your first visit to Ireland, tracing your Irish ancestry, or simply want a weekly dose of the Emerald Isle in your …
There is a smell that older Dubliners and Corkonians remember from Saturday nights in the 1970s. It drifted from a bucket kept warm behind the …
Before the fishing boats left the Aran Islands, the women of each family would press a handknitted sweater into the arms of the men heading …
Three men lift a narrow, tar-black boat above their heads and carry it down to the shore. It weighs almost nothing — a skeleton of …
Walk into almost any medieval Irish castle and climb towards the upper floors. The staircase will curl upward in a clockwise direction — tight enough …
For over a century, Irish children learned to read by crouching in ditches, under hawthorn bushes, and behind dry-stone walls — while a lookout watched …
Every August, the small Kerry town of Killorglin does something that has been baffling outsiders for centuries. It captures a wild mountain goat from the …
On the last Sunday in September, 82,300 people fill Croke Park in Dublin — one of Europe’s largest stadiums — for the All-Ireland Final. The …
The Irish contribution to American independence runs far deeper than most Americans were ever taught in school. As the United States marks the 250th anniversary …
Walk into an Irish trad session tonight and listen past the fiddles, the uilleann pipes, and the tin whistle. Underneath it all, keeping everything alive, …
In old Ireland, when the storm clouds gathered over a freshly cut field, a farmer didn’t reach for his wallet. He stepped outside, and the …