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IrishCentral.comby Kate Hickey7d ago
In 1759, a former household servant named Arthur Guinness walked into St James's Gate in Dublin and signed a lease that ran for 9,000 years, so certain was he that his dark beer would outlive him.
IrishCentral.comby Paddy Clancy7d ago
On October 1, 1908, the first Model T rolled off the line in Detroit and changed how the world moved forever, and the man behind it was the son of a Famine emigrant from West Cork.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff7d ago
Fifty thousand people packed a Missouri stadium to watch a TV star become a Blessed. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the grandson of Roscommon emigrants, is now one step from sainthood.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff7d ago
Richard Harris was born in Limerick on October 1, 1930, one of nine children and a young man far more interested in rugby than in acting.
IrishCentral.comby Frances Mulraney7d ago
Queen Victoria donated £2,000 to Irish famine relief in January 1848, and because royal protocol held that no one could give more than the monarch, the young Sultan of Turkey was quietly pressed to...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff8d ago
Ireland Fashion Week is back, and it has claimed Slane Castle, Dublin City Hall, Trinity College Dublin and Mount Juliet Estate for its second run.
IrishCentral.comby Orla Ní Riain8d ago
When John Harney founded Harney & Sons in 1983, he was a 53-year-old innkeeper working out of his own basement with five blends and little else to his name.
IrishCentral.comby Shane O'Brien8d ago
For 25 years, Patrick Madden fought to prove he was born in Ireland, only to have doors shut in his face at every turn because he had no birth certificate.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff8d ago
In the winter of 1925, two ruined harvests had rotted the potato crop, killed off animal stocks, and left the turf too sodden to burn, and in Connemara, Clare, and the Atlantic islands, people were...
IrishCentral.comby Frances Mulraney8d ago
Ireland rarely looks as elegant or as magical as it does in this beautiful short film, which traces the essence of the country through its past, its present, and above all, its people.
IrishCentral.comby Chloe O'Keeffe8d ago
An eight-hour yellow wind alert was in effect for counties Cork, Clare, Kerry, Limerick and Waterford on Tuesday.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff8d ago
More overseas visitors came to Ireland in August than a year earlier, but they stayed fewer nights and spent less money while they were here.
IrishCentral.comby Michelle McDonagh8d ago
Eleven novels into her career, Irish crime writer Sheila Bugler still sits down at her desk with no idea what the next chapter holds, or even the next word.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff9d ago
The people of Kinvara, Co. Galway, will walk together to the chained gates of Dunguaire Castle on Wednesday, September 30, marking three years to the day since one of Ireland's most photographed...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff9d ago
Anyone tracing Irish roots can search birth records from 1864 to 1918, marriages from 1864 to 1943, and deaths from 1878 to 1968 without paying a cent, thanks to a digitization drive by the Civil...
IrishCentral.comby Ray O’Hanlon9d ago
It was still dark when the buses began rolling, carrying whole families from every corner of the country toward a roped-off corral in Dublin's Phoenix Park.
IrishCentral.comby Martin Doyle9d ago
There is nowhere better to lose yourself in the real Ireland than Galway city and the wild hinterland at its back, where a stroll from Eyre Square to the Spanish Arch can feel like a rainier...
IrishCentral.comby Dermot McEvoy9d ago
Before my mother married my father in 1949 at Our Lady of Perpetual Succor in Dublin, she worked as the cook for Mrs. Darley in the Anglo-Protestant enclave of Foxrock.
IrishCentral.comby Irish Voice Editorial9d ago
John Devoy was 86 when he died in New York on September 29, 1928, closing a life that stretched from the Famine years in County Kildare to the funding of the 1916 Easter Rising.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff9d ago
The eyes of the global hospitality industry are once again turning to a small corner of Dublin’s Northside, with the announcement that BAR 1661 has been ranked No.98 best bar in the world by the...
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