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IrishCentral.comby Ella Rose Fingado3h ago
The drafts, his editor Rae Jeffs's successive revisions, and the final version are all held in the American Irish Historical Society in New York, and together they show how much of "Confessions of...
IrishCentral.comby Eric Bryan7h ago
Born around 1640 near Poyntzpass, Redmond O'Hanlon watched his family's lands pass to the English Crown and answered by taking to the hills with a gang of roughly 50 men.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff7h ago
Andrew Scott's new film "Elsinore" opened the 70th BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday night, earning the Irish actor a long standing ovation at the Royal Festival Hall.
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd8h ago
Winston Churchill was British Secretary of State for War when the Black and Tans arrived in Ireland on March 25, 1920, sent to crush a rebellion his cabinet still dismissed as the work of thugs and...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff8h ago
Long before plastic fangs and pumpkin buckets arrived in Ireland, the Celts were already losing sleep over a cast of demons, shapeshifters and death-foretellers with names most of us can barely...
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd8h ago
Most people who roar it from the terraces assume "The Fields of Athenry" was handed down from the starving generations of the 1840s. In fact, Pete St.
IrishCentral.comby Michelle K. Smith8h ago
Betsy Gray was the daughter of a Presbyterian farmer in Co. Down, a fearless horsewoman who rode into the Battle of Ballynahinch on June 13, 1798, carrying a green flag beside the United Irish...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff21h ago
The funeral for Niamh Flatley (née O'Brien), the wife of Irish dance superstar Michael Flatley, will be held in Dublin on Saturday, October 10.
IrishCentral.comby Jonathan Browne1d ago
The GAA Director General, Tom Ryan, has said that integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) and Camogie Association into the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is still "a number...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff1d ago
Ireland has been named the friendliest country in Europe - and home to one of the friendliest cities in Europe - in the Condé Nast Traveller Readers' Choice Awards 2026.
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd1d ago
When Lord Erne's land agent moved against 11 tenants near Lough Mask in the autumn of 1880, the Mayo branch of the Land League did not raise a fist.
IrishCentral.comby Chef Michael Gilligan1d ago
With Halloween just weeks away, there is still time to turn a simple batch of shortbread into something properly gruesome.
IrishCentral.comby Joseph Connell20h ago
Of the 31 bishops in Ireland in 1916, only one offered even a hedged condemnation of the Easter Rising, and the hierarchy ruled the revolt unjustified on every count.
IrishCentral.comby Dermot McEvoy1d ago
The Atlas of the Irish Revolution is not a book you curl up with, because at 10 pounds and 964 pages, it is a tome for the kitchen table rather than the armchair.
IrishCentral.comby Kayla Hertz1d ago
Shergar won the 1981 Epsom Derby by ten lengths, the widest winning margin in the race's history, and retired to Ballymany Stud in Co. Kildare as a stallion syndicated for $15 million.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff1d ago
"The Emigrant's Letter", also known as "Cutting the Corn in Creeslough."is, on paper, a song about agricultural scheduling.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff1d ago
The flag that now flies over every school in Ireland began as a gift of French silk, handed to a young Waterford rebel by revolutionaries who had just toppled their king.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff1d ago
Two GoFundMe pages have been launched following the death of Irish man Christopher 'Cricky' Roche, 56, in New York this month.
IrishCentral.comby Kerry O'Shea1d ago
Nearly 50 international celebrities and public figures have signed a letter issued to Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Bryant on Tuesday afternoon, October 6, regarding the "impasse" at...
IrishCentral.comby John Murphy2d ago
Budget 2027 has been unveiled by Finance Minister Simon Harris and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers in a package worth around €8.5 billion.
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