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The cairn on Knocknarea holds 40,000 tonnes of untouched limestone and Ireland’s greatest legend. Discover why archaeologists refuse to open it.

Newgrange was built around 3200 BC — older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza — and once a year, at dawn, it still does exactly what it was built to do. Five thousand years on, we’re still working out how they actually did it.

The Dark Hedges in County Antrim hide a ghost story older than Game of Thrones. Meet the Grey Lady — and discover the real history behind Ireland’s most photographed road.

Grace O’Malley sailed to meet Queen Elizabeth I in 1593 and won. Ireland’s most famous sea chieftain — plus weekly Ireland stories free in our newsletter.

In 1900, nine out of every ten whiskeys drunk on Earth were Irish. By 1980, two distilleries were left in the entire country. This episode covers how that happened, and how Irish whiskey came back.

The Burren looks like nowhere else in Ireland — a limestone landscape that confused geologists for a century. This episode explains what you’re actually looking at.

Classiebawn Castle sits at the edge of Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo — a real, visitable place, and the site of one of the defining events of …

Most visitors photograph Kylemore Abbey from across the lake and move on. Almost none of them are told why it was built, or what happened …

Every year, thousands of Irish-American, Irish-Australian and Irish-Canadian visitors stand on this quay looking for the exact spot their ancestors last stood on Irish soil. …

Millions of people drive the Ring of Kerry every year and finish it without understanding what they actually just saw. This episode is the context most tourists never get.