Love Ireland

Discover the remarkable Irish bog bodies — 2,000-year-old men preserved in peat, their fingerprints, hair, and last meals still intact. What happened to them?

Discover Irish surnames from Waterford – Power, Phelan, Foley, Walsh and more. Origins, Gaelic meanings, and how to trace your Waterford ancestry today.

Most visitors break the unwritten rules of an Irish trad session without realising it. Here’s what really happens in the circle — and what you must never do.

Discover the surprising reality of daily life inside a medieval Irish castle — who slept there, what they ate, and the world hidden behind the stone.

At the Tailteann Games in County Meath, couples once married for exactly one year and a day — and had the legal right to dissolve the union just as simply.

Ireland has millions of dry stone walls, all built without mortar. Discover the forgotten story behind who built them, how entire fields were created from bare rock, and why the walls are still standing.

Before licensed pubs, Ireland’s remote communities relied on the sheebeen — a hidden, unlicensed drinking house run from private homes for centuries.

Make bakery-quality chocolate brioche twists at home with Chris’s foolproof method — silky enriched dough, rich chocolate filling, utterly irresistible.

The Book of Kells was stolen in 1007 and found buried in Irish ground. The monks who made it left behind a mystery scholars are still arguing over.

The Tulla Céilí Band celebrates 80 years of traditional Irish music in 2026. Founded in a County Clare pub in 1946, they are still playing — and still making Ireland dance.