Ireland had 8.2 million people in 1841 and has 7.1 million today. See the fall county by county, what caused it and where the people went.
Hilma af Klint, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Group IV (1907). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The National Gallery of Ireland just became an even …
Ten places across Ireland, counted down from ten to one, with what to see, how long to allow and one mistake to avoid at each.
Where 14 common Irish surnames clustered in 1890, county by county: Sullivan, Murphy, Kelly, Gallagher and more, from the official report.
Photo: Graham Horn / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) On a February morning in 2003, a peat-cutting machine at Bord na Móna’s Ballivor Works in …
Ireland’s pub quiz nights are a beloved local tradition — and the perfect way to spend an evening on your visit. Here’s what to expect, where to find them, and which family member will inevitably claim they’d win.
David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Giant’s Causeway: Why 40,000 Perfectly Hexagonal Basalt Columns Look Man-Made (But Aren’t) The first thing the brain …
Meet Balor of the Evil Eye, the giant king of Irish myth. Learn his tale, Tory Island’s link to it, and the Irish folk belief it left behind.
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Photo: LookLookNoHands / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Halloween started here. Not the costumes-and-candy version, but the real thing — Samhain, the ancient Celtic new …
Photo: Gerda Arendt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons A Classic Recipe for Irish Trout with Almonds Few dishes speak so eloquently of Ireland’s landscape as a …