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Bronze statue of James Larkin with both arms raised, on a granite plinth inscribed JIM LARKIN 1874–1947, on O'Connell Street in Dublin

The Tram That Stopped in the Street: Dublin’s Great Lockout of 1913

The Jim Larkin monument on O’Connell Street, Dublin, by sculptor Oisín Kelly. Photo: Frabjousone, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Horse-Power Hour At roughly seven …

The grass-covered roof and glazed entrance of the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Centre, built into the hillside, with visitors walking along the path

Ireland Buried a €31.5 Million Building to Save a Coastline

The Cliffs of Moher Visitor Centre sits beneath its grass-covered roof. Photo: Joseph Mischyshyn / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Ireland Buried a €31.5 Million …

Rocky upland hilltop with a ruined stone enclosure overlooking a bay and distant mountains

The Love Ireland Guide № 012: Fairy Forts

Tony Webster from San Francisco, California via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Drive the back roads of Clare, Meath or Donegal and you will pass …

Black-and-white construction-era photographs of the Ardnacrusha works on the Shannon, showing the dam, turbine pipes and machine hall

How Ireland’s 1929 Shannon Scheme Was Built by a German Company

Photo: Original photographer unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons How Ireland’s 1929 Shannon Scheme Was Built by a German Company In the summer of …

How a 70-Year-Old Irish Law Turned Brexit Into the Biggest Passport Rush in Living Memory

Photo: AndyJWD / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) How a 70-Year-Old Irish Law Turned Brexit Into the Biggest Passport Rush in Living Memory The Brexit result came …

Vintage orange and red tractors pulling ploughs across a stubble field, with spectators watching at a ploughing match

What Actually Happens at the National Ploughing Championships — and Why 300,000 People Show Up

Photo: Smirkybec / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) What Actually Happens at the National Ploughing Championships — and Why 300,000 People Show Up Every September, …

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 Was Built to Catch 17 Minutes of Sunlight

Photo: Wikimedia Commons (via Wikipedia) Some minutes before sunrise on 21 December 1967, a Cork archaeologist named Professor Michael J. O’Kelly crawled into a stone …

Ireland’s Hospice Care History: How Did a Small Country Become a Global Leader in Palliative Care?

Photo: Wikimedia Commons (via Wikipedia) On 9 December 1879, a woman named Anna Gaynor — known in religion as Mother Mary John — opened the …

Valentia Island, County Kerry, site of the first transatlantic telegraph cable station connecting Ireland and America

The Wire Beneath the Water: How a Kerry Island Became the Birthplace of Global Telecommunications

Kmcnamee via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) On the morning of 5 August 1858, a ship called HMS Agamemnon manoeuvred into the harbour at Knightstown …

Why Ireland Always Feels Like Coming Home — Even When You’ve Never Been Before

Discover why Ireland feels like home the moment you arrive — from the gift of unhurried attention to the meitheal spirit that turns strangers into friends.

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