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IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff22h ago
The negotiations that opened in London on this day in 1921 ran on until the early hours of December 6, when the Articles of Agreement were signed at 2.12am and the War of Independence was finally...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff22h ago
For a century, the Black and Tans have been remembered as convicts and psychopaths turned loose on Ireland, a story passed down in ballads, classrooms, and kitchen tables from Cork to Chicago.
IrishCentral.comby William A. Thomas22h ago
Before the parades and the shamrocks, Patrick was a frightened boy taken from the British coast by an Irish raiding party and put to work minding sheep through the cold nights on the slopes of...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff22h ago
The name itself points away from magic and towards learning, with one accepted origin being the Celtic compound of dru for tree and wid for knowing, giving something close to one who knows the oak.
IrishCentral.comby Fin Dwyer22h ago
Oliver Cromwell landed in Dublin in the summer of 1649, and within weeks, his troops had forced their way into Drogheda and killed soldiers and civilians alike in one of the most notorious...
IrishCentral.comby Adam Van Eekeren1d ago
Michael Flatley today (Oct.10) laid his wife, Niamh O’Brien, to rest following the heartbreaking news of her sudden death.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff1d ago
There is a reason the French never serve a fish stew without a spoonful of rouille alongside it, and Bord Bia has borrowed the idea for a dish built on Irish whiting, mussels, and prawns.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff2d ago
Looking for the perfect way to celebrate a birthday, anniversary, or milestone? Staying in a grand castle hotel that blends modern luxury with rich history could be the ultimate way to mark the...
IrishCentral.comby Kerry O'Shea1d ago
It remains one of the most audacious few minutes of comedy the BBC has ever aired at ten o'clock on a Monday night. As the credits rolled on a St.
IrishCentral.comby In Partnership With:1d ago
Kathleen Lynn was 16 when she decided to become a doctor, having watched post-Famine poverty and disease tear through the communities around her wealthy Protestant family's Co Mayo home.
IrishCentral.comby James Wilson1d ago
Jane Russell was one of the biggest names in Hollywood when word got out that she wanted another child, and the news reached Hannah McDermott, a Derry woman then living in London, who offered the...
IrishCentral.comby Kerry O'Shea2d ago
The Orange Order's procession on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Co Armagh, cannot proceed, Northern Ireland's Secretary of State Chris Bryant announced on Friday, October 9.
IrishCentral.comby George Morahan2d ago
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan paid more than €51m for Strancally Castle, the Gothic-style mansion and 178-hectare (440-acre) estate they purchased in Knockanore, Co Waterford.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff2d ago
An ancient Irish alphabet created a new connection between Ireland and New York City last month when custom artwork by a Connecticut artist was presented to the Taoiseach and the Mayor during a...
IrishCentral.comby Adam Van Eekeren2d ago
Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly has revealed the eye-watering sum spent by the force on a security operation for US President Donald Trump’s recent Irish visit.
IrishCentral.comby Kerry O'Shea2d ago
Helen McEntee, Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, has responded after US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced plans to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, who was...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff2d ago
Ireland has thousands of waymarked trails, but only a handful come with a genuine one-off attached, a pilgrim mountain, a cable car that crosses open ocean, a walkway bolted onto a cliff face.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff2d ago
John Patrick O'Riley left Clifden in Co. Galway, served in the British Army, enlisted as a private in the United States Army, and then walked across the lines to Mexico, where he built an artillery...
IrishCentral.comby Matt Keough2d ago
When roughly 1,000 rebels seized the General Post Office and a ring of buildings across Dublin on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, there were only about 400 British soldiers in the city to stop them.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff2d ago
On the morning of August 4, 1892, a 26-year-old emigrant from Ireland was scrubbing windows at a house on Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, while Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were...
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