“Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history,” Novalis said. It was subtle of Penelope Fitzgerald to use this as the epigraph for her historical novel about the poet, “The Blue Flower,” implying, ...

400 years ago under an Irish oak tree in the garden of St. Anthony’s College, Louvain, two south Donegal Franciscans changed Irish history forever. Fr. Hugh Ward, Guardian of the Irish Franciscans in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three tourists in Dublin city centre, Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin 1, Ireland. From the earliest African arrivals on Irish shores, ...

The intriguing narratives of Celtic mythology illustrate the connections of the Ancient Greeks with the history of Ireland.

Ireland's leaders have launched the 2021 program for the Decade of Centenaries to mark key events in Irish history leading up to, and including, the momentous events of 1912-1923. The 20th Century ...

The ruins of Dunamase Castle tower over County Laois in Ireland. It's been centuries since anyone lived here, but an American tour group has come to imagine what life might have been like when their ...

Growing up as an Irish woman, I often wondered why a Romano-British man became Ireland’s enduring global icon, eclipsing nearly every Irish woman in history. Yet every March, millions worldwide ...

‘Irish writers, poets, playwrights, artists are rightly celebrated, but no one knows about the clockmakers,’ one donor said. By Sandra Jordan WATERFORD, Ireland — Ireland’s long history of horology ...

A protest mural in Dublin, seen in 2012, honors the women sentenced to the workhouses in Ireland known as Magdalene Laundries. (William Murphy/ Wikimedia Commons) From the late 18th century to 1996, ...