Ireland Originals Archives

Deep-dive reported features on the hidden stories, people and economics behind everyday Ireland.

The Four Courts on the north bank of the River Liffey in Dublin, the building bombarded by Free State forces on 28 June 1922

The Day the Irish Free State Destroyed Its Own History

Photo: Zairon, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Day the Irish Free State Destroyed Its Own History At 4:29 in the morning on 28 …

Visitors queuing on the parapet of Blarney Castle to kiss the Blarney Stone

Blarney Stone History: Was the Kissing Tradition Actually Invented in the 1800s?

Photo: Raymond Okonski / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Blarney Stone History: Was the Kissing Tradition Actually Invented in the 1800s? Here is what close …

Hurlers warming up on the pitch at Croke Park ahead of a GAA match

Hurling: The 3,000-Year-Old Sport Where 82,000 Fans Watch Unpaid Players Compete at Croke Park

Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Hurling: The 3,000-Year-Old Sport Where 82,000 Fans Watch Unpaid Players Compete at Croke Park When the final whistle …

The Irish National Stud Was Built on Astrology — and It Produced a Derby Winner

Photo: Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash The Irish National Stud Was Built on Astrology — and It Produced a Derby Winner On the …

Powerscourt House, the 18th-century Palladian mansion in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, seen from the Italian Garden terraces

Powerscourt House Fire 1974: The Night It Burned Down After Its Grand Reopening

Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons In early November 1974, a group of journalists made their way to Enniskerry in County Wicklow for …

Reconstructed ringfort at Craggaunowen, County Clare — a thatched stone roundhouse inside a timber palisade, the kind of earthwork enclosure later reinterpreted in Irish folklore as a fairy fort

Never Shift a Fairy Bush: The Ancient Irish Superstition That Still Shapes Modern Infrastructure

Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Somewhere along the M18 motorway in County Clare, tucked between the northbound carriageway and a slip road …

Why Did the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Fail After One Month?

Photo: Photo by Oleksandr Kobuta on Pexels On the morning of August 16, 1858, the most important telegram in human history began its journey from …

A raised peat bog in County Kerry, Ireland, showing cut turf banks — the acidic, oxygen-free wetland conditions in which Iron Age bog bodies like Clonycavan Man have been preserved for over 2,000 years

The Bog Remembered Everything: Ireland’s 2,500-Year Cold Case, Preserved in Perfect Detail

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 …

Close-up of the hexagonal basalt columns at the Giant's Causeway on the Antrim coast, Northern Ireland

Giant’s Causeway: Why 40,000 Perfectly Hexagonal Basalt Columns Look Man-Made (But Aren’t)

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 …

Golden Claddagh ring sign in Galway, showing the two hands holding a crowned heart

The Claddagh Ring Has Circled the World. The Village It Came From Was Knocked Down.

Photo: Miguel Mendez from Malahide, Ireland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Two hands. A crowned heart. Three words anyone who owns one can recite: …

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