Skellig Michael, Inis Mór, Achill and more: our ranking of Ireland’s 10 best islands to visit. Do you agree with our list? Tell us your number one.
Explore Galway city, Connemara and the Aran Islands: ten memorable stops, practical travel tips and one mistake to avoid at each, from streets to cliffs.
Étaín and Midir is Ireland’s oldest love story. A fairy king loses his wife to a spell, then waits a thousand years to win her back. Read the full tale.
A woven St Brigid’s Cross. Photo: Culnacreann / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0). Every February, Ireland Weaves a Cross Said to Be Ancient. The Oldest …
Pike (Esox lucius). Photo: AsgerJon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Baked Lough Derg Pike Recipe: A Taste of the Shannon Lakelands Pike has been pulled from …
Image: Shutterstock On the morning of the last Sunday of July 2025, a 21-year-old agricultural science student from County Longford named Catherine Cooney stood at …
Yes, through the Foreign Births Register: €278 for an adult and about 12 months. Once registered you are an Irish citizen. Checked October 2026.
The free official Irish record sites, step by step: the 1901, 1911 and 1926 censuses, civil registers, parish registers and land records, with one real family traced.
Meet Aengus Óg, the Irish god of love. Read his tale of the swan maiden, the Boyne home he won by a trick, and where to find his story today.
Photo by Thembi Johnson on Unsplash Potato and Wild Garlic Soup Recipe: A Taste of Irish Spring There is a moment each spring in Ireland …
Fungie swims alongside a dolphin-watching boat in Dingle Harbour, 2017. Photo: Gerd Eichmann / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Fungie the Dingle Dolphin: What Happened …