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 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 …
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 …
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The Reading Room at the National Library of Ireland. Photo: PineTreeBlues, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons If you’re planning a Dublin trip this autumn, here’s one …
The Reading Room at the National Library of Ireland. Photo: PineTreeBlues, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons If you’re heading to Dublin this month, here’s one for …
Autumn is a good time to look for minke whales, humpbacks and dolphins off Ireland’s west and south coasts. Here is where to look and how to check recent sightings.
Photo: Berthold Werner / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) If you’re planning an autumn trip to Ireland, Savour Kilkenny just gave you a reason to …
The grey stone at the Cliffs of Moher was once mud at the bottom of a tropical sea, when Ireland sat near the equator 315 million years ago. Here is the geology story — and what to look for when you visit.
If the first batch of Irish family sayings made you laugh, we have bad news: we were only getting started. Our post on 7 Irish …
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 …