Irish comedian Kyla Cobbler announces pregnancy
IrishCentral.comby Chloe O'Keeffe11d ago
It’s the latest from the Cork woman who is having a stellar year on both a professional and personal level.
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top 56%Season of the witch! Spooky trails and Samhain fun to get stuck into this Halloween
IrishCentral.comby Lauren Walsh11d ago
Ireland has long been regarded as the home of Halloween, and so it comes as no surprise that there are events happening across the island to mark the occasion.
Nearly 50 arrested in crackdown on people smuggling across the Irish border
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff11d ago
British Immigration Enforcement officers arrested 49 people in just three days as part of a sweeping operation aimed at gangs smuggling migrants from Ireland into the United Kingdom.
Vatican exorcists once called for Halloween to be replaced with Holyween
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff11d ago
As spooky season creeps in once again, it is worth remembering that the Catholic Church once tried to cancel Halloween altogether.
The American Revolution was Ireland’s first victory
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd10d ago
IrishCentral founder and Irish Voice publisher Niall O’Dowd’s new book on the history of Ireland’s instrumental role in the creation of the United States, "George Washington and the Irish...
Ireland invented Halloween but America sold it back to us at a markup
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff11d ago
Trick-or-treating in Ireland in 1995 meant knocking on doors and asking for apples or nuts, with half the houses handing out nothing at all.
Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
IrishCentral.comby Shane O'Brien11d ago
When Leonard Cohen stepped up to sing "Kevin Barry" at a concert in 1972, he first told the audience that wars in different places all come down to the same thing: young men of 18 and 19 being...
Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
IrishCentral.comby Kate Hickey11d 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.
Henry Ford changed the world with the Model T but his family story began in Cork
IrishCentral.comby Paddy Clancy11d 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.
Grandson of Roscommon emigrants, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is finally on his way to sainthood
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff11d 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.
Richard Harris was born in Limerick on this day and swore he hated the movies
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff11d 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.
Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
IrishCentral.comby Frances Mulraney11d 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...
Slane Castle and Trinity College set to host Ireland Fashion Week 2026
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff11d 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.
The Irish-American family whose basement tea business now supplies royal palaces
IrishCentral.comby Orla Ní Riain12d 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.
Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
IrishCentral.comby Shane O'Brien12d 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.
The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff11d 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...
WATCH: This short film captures the soul of Ireland and it will leave you homesick
IrishCentral.comby Frances Mulraney11d 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.
Storm fallout: Thousands left without power as roads remain blocked
IrishCentral.comby Chloe O'Keeffe12d ago
An eight-hour yellow wind alert was in effect for counties Cork, Clare, Kerry, Limerick and Waterford on Tuesday.
Almost 789,000 overseas visitors came to Ireland in August
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff12d 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.
Irish crime writer takes aim at the wicked stepmother myth in gripping new thriller
IrishCentral.comby Michelle McDonagh12d 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.