Love Ireland

Discover the hidden history of Irish pub snug rooms — the tiny private spaces where women, priests and others drank in secret for generations.

Every 26th December, straw-masked musicians march through Irish villages in a tradition called Wren Day — one of Ireland’s oldest and most mysterious customs, still alive today.

Poitín was banned in Ireland for 300 years — and the Irish kept making it anyway. Discover the rebel spirit hidden in bogs that’s finally back on shelves.

The Irish banshee wails only for certain ancient families. Discover which surnames she follows and what her cry really sounds like in Irish folklore.

The Night of the Big Wind swept Ireland in 1839. Discover how this catastrophic storm became Ireland’s most extraordinary measure of time.

Sean-nós is Ireland’s oldest and most haunting vocal tradition — a solo singing style in the Irish language that predates every instrument, needs no backing, and moves people to silence wherever it is heard.

Ireland’s folk healing tradition: the gift of ‘the cure’ — passed through rural families for centuries and still sought out in many communities today.

Step inside the hidden rooms of old Irish pubs. Irish pub snug rooms have a secret history — one that reveals a lot about who was welcome and who wasn’t.

Newgrange in County Meath is a 5,000-year-old passage tomb older than the pyramids. Once a year, at the winter solstice, sunlight floods its chamber for 17 minutes.

Across Ireland, roughly 45,000 ancient ring forts sit untouched in farm fields and countryside. Discover why Irish farmers still refuse to disturb these fairy forts today.