Bealtaine has arrived, offering a chance to contemplate Ireland's ancient history. As the Gaelic May Day festival, Bealtaine signals the start of summer and, alongside Samhain, Imbolc, and Lughnasadh, ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, ...

Tapping into the long and rich histories of places around Europe is a central part of an EU push for rural and urban revival. Finola Finlay claims to know almost every inch of West Cork in ...

Every Irish family has a personal story that they are told as children about how their family is connected to an important place in Irish history. I will tell one of my family’s stories that was told ...

A Belfast man has said that he wants to “connect people to their history” and raise awareness of the “richness” of our past as he maps out Ireland’s ancient historical sites. Daniel Kirkpatrick is a ...