Ireland Originals Archives

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

Harbour-front shops selling Aran sweaters in Kilronan, Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands

The Aran Sweater Is Not an Ancient Irish Tradition. It Was Invented in the 1890s.

Photo: JoachimKohler-HB / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) The Aran Sweater Is Not an Ancient Irish Tradition. It Was Invented in the 1890s. In souvenir …

The Stone Huts That Have Stood for 1,400 Years — Built on a Rock in the Atlantic, With No Mortar

Photo: NoNameIsLeft / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) There is a jagged pyramidal rock rising 218 metres out of the North Atlantic, about 11 kilometres …

Newgrange passage tomb in County Meath with its white quartzite facade and grassy mound under a blue sky, with the large entrance kerbstones in front

Newgrange Winter Solstice: How a 5,000-Year-Old Tomb Captures Sunrise for Exactly 17 Minutes

Photo: Wikimedia Commons (via Wikipedia) Newgrange Winter Solstice: How a 5,000-Year-Old Tomb Captures Sunrise for Exactly 17 Minutes Every December, thirty thousand people enter a …

Exterior of The Brazen Head pub on Lower Bridge Street, Dublin, Ireland's oldest pub, with its gold signage and barred green windows

Why Are Dublin’s Oldest Pubs Called The Bleeding Horse, The Gravediggers, and The Brazen Head?

Photo: Matthewvetter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Why Are Dublin’s Oldest Pubs Called The Bleeding Horse, The Gravediggers, and The Brazen Head? Most pub …

Ireland’s Best Food Festivals in 2026: Galway Oyster Festival, Taste of Dublin, Dingle, and More Worth Planning a Trip Around

Photo: Photo by Bree Anne on Unsplash Ireland’s Best Food Festivals in 2026: Galway Oyster Festival, Taste of Dublin, Dingle, and More Worth Planning a …

Boyeeghter Strand (Murder Hole Beach), a sheltered cove of white sand enclosed by dark headland on the Rosguill Peninsula, County Donegal

Ireland Has a Beach Called Murder Hole. Nobody Agrees on Why.

Photo: Heikki.vesanto / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Ireland Has a Beach Called Murder Hole. Nobody Agrees on Why. In the summer of 2021, a …

Ireland’s Best Coastal Fish and Chips: Howth, Galway, Doolin and More

Photo: Photo by Meelan Bawjee on Unsplash Ireland’s Best Coastal Fish and Chips: Howth, Galway, Doolin and More In June 1905, a group of sailors …

The County Dublin coat of arms — a raven on a woven hurdle — carved above a window at No. 11 Parnell Square, Dublin.

The Georgian Room Where James Joyce Wrote Fiction Is Now Ireland’s Living Home for Poetry

Photo: Piotr Kubowicz via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) The Georgian Room Where James Joyce Wrote Fiction Is Now Ireland’s Living Home for Poetry There …

Glandore Harbour in West Cork, with moored boats, a stone quay and houses on the hillside

West Cork’s Wild Atlantic Way: Coastal Walks, Island Ferries and Seafood Worth Travelling For

Photo: Kainjock / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) West Cork’s Wild Atlantic Way: Coastal Walks, Island Ferries and Seafood Worth Travelling For For a generation …

Stone shopfront of the Aran Sweater Market with a hanging sign, on a street in Galway city

Did Aran Sweater Families Really Use Knitting Patterns to Identify Drowned Fishermen?

Photo: N Chadwick / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) The story is irresistible, and we know it well. Somewhere off the west coast of Ireland, …

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