When someone was dying in an old Irish home, the family didn’t just grieve. They moved quickly. West-facing windows were sealed shut. Doors facing the …

Hidden in the Wicklow Mountains, Glendalough monastic city has drawn pilgrims for 1,400 years. Discover the story of Ireland’s most sacred valley.

Charlie Chaplin was one of the most recognised faces on earth. By the late 1950s, he could have chosen anywhere in the world to spend …

The Irish village forge was more than a workshop. It was the beating social heart of every community — and the man who ran it was both admired and feared.

Why Irish farmers feared the hare above all other creatures — the ancient legend of shapeshifting witches, stolen milk, and silver bullets.

Discover Sliabh Luachra — the remote Kerry-Cork highland where a music tradition of polkas and slides survived when the rest of Ireland moved on.

Make Chris’s apple crumble muffins with Cox apples, buttermilk batter and a cinnamon crumble topping. Easy recipe makes 12 bakery-style muffins perfect for sharing.

The ancient Irish geis was a sacred rule no hero could refuse. Breaking it always led to disaster — discover why Ireland’s greatest warriors were destroyed by the rules they could never escape.

The ancient Irish legend of Stingy Jack explains why we carve pumpkins — a trickster who outwitted the Devil and was banned from both heaven and hell.

The ancient Irish belief in the droch shúil — the evil eye — explains why grandmothers say ‘God bless’ when admiring a baby. Discover Ireland’s oldest living folk tradition.