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IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd3d ago
It has been belted out by The Dubliners, reinvented by Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy, thrashed into a Grammy winner by Metallica, and even taken up by U2, yet few of the millions who sing along know...
IrishCentral.comby Paul Hill3d ago
On this day, October 5, 1974, a bombing by the IRA at a London pub killed five people. Editor’s Note: Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, and Carole Richardson, known as the Guilford Four...
IrishCentral.comby Cahir O'Doherty3d ago
Bob Geldof was born in Dún Laoghaire on October 5, 1951, which means that next Monday the Boomtown Rats frontman turns 75, a fair distance from the furious young man who dragged the pop world into...
IrishCentral.comby Kayla Hertz3d ago
Flann O'Brien, born Brian O'Nolan in Co. Tyrone on October 5, 1911, spent his life skewering Irish life with a humor so dark and so odd that readers are still catching up with him more than a...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff3d ago
Most old Irish coins are worth exactly what they say on the face, but a small number are quietly extraordinary, including a 1938 penny valued at anywhere from €12,000 to €35,000 and a 1943 florin...
IrishCentral.comby John Murphy4d ago
Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has made a strongly worded intervention on Israel’s place in European sport, saying the country should be thrown out of UEFA.
IrishCentral.comby Frances Mulraney4d ago
On October 4, 1939, barely a month into World War II, people living around Ventry Harbour on the Dingle Peninsula watched a German submarine rise out of the water off their shore.
IrishCentral.comby Brendan Patrick Keane4d ago
When Peter O'Connor was called forward to collect his medals at the 1906 Athens Games, he ignored the podium and went for the flagpole instead, shining to the top to unfurl a golden harp on a green...
IrishCentral.comby Caroline Rochford4d ago
Joseph "Paddy" Rochford was a barefoot child roaming Dublin's Phoenix Park when his father, disillusioned after the Great War, packed him off at the age of eight to the Royal Hibernian Military...
IrishCentral.comby Chef Michael Gilligan4d ago
With Halloween just weeks away, IrishCentral's own Chef Michael Gilligan is back with the two things every party needs: something to eat and something to be terrified of.
IrishCentral.comby Dara Burke4d ago
When the Black and Tans swept into Clogheen on a house-to-house search for weapons, most people in the Co Cork village kept their heads down and prayed the door held.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff4d ago
When the first shot cracked across Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, the man holding the steering wheel of John F.
IrishCentral.comby Sheila Langan4d ago
Ireland's forty shades of green go a long way towards explaining its best-known nickname, but the phrase itself was born in verse rather than in the fields.
IrishCentral.comby Frances Mulraney4d ago
More than 400,000 people pour into Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann each year for the world's largest celebration of Irish traditional music, and almost every tune they hear began life as something nobody...
IrishCentral.comby Philip Downes5d ago
Met Éireann has declared that winter is on its way, as the country is set to cool down from the middle of next week.
IrishCentral.comby John Cooney5d ago
A Catholic priest, who evaded extradition from Ireland to Scotland in the early 1970s for alleged involvement in the Provisional IRA’s bombing campaign in Britain, died aged 85, in 2019.
IrishCentral.comby John Joe McGinley5d ago
Long before anyone carved a pumpkin or knocked on a neighbor's door for sweets, the ancient Celts of Ireland marked Samhain, the night when the harvest ended, the dark half of the year began, and...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff5d ago
Born five weeks early on Cape Cod and delivered by emergency Cesarean at Otis Air Force Base, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy weighed four pounds, ten and a half ounces, and never managed the full-throated...
IrishCentral.comby Tom Deignan5d ago
Belt out the opening bars of "Danny Boy" in any Irish pub and you will get groans from one half of the room and a full chorus from the other, which is roughly the arrangement the song has enjoyed...
IrishCentral.comby Mairéad Geary5d ago
Every Irish childhood birthday party had a plate of Rice Krispie buns on the table, and with Halloween now just weeks away, Mairéad Geary has given that humble favorite a creepy makeover.
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