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IrishCentral.comby Philip Downes6d ago
Someone who lost their phone in a Liverpool park was left with a surprise when they learned who found it: none other than Irish superstar Barry Keoghan.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff6d ago
For more than 90 years, Farrell’s has been more than a bar—it has been a piece of Brooklyn history.
IrishCentral.comby Chloe O'Keeffe6d ago
Sunday marks one whole week of the standoff between the residents of the predominantly nationalist road and the Orange Order.
IrishCentral.comby Louise Porter6d ago
Picking a baby name for your little one is tricky business; there’s no doubt about it. There is just so much to consider, whether it’s naming trends, a specific language or culture you want to...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff6d ago
Tom Cruise is back on the silver screen this month with "Digger", and audiences who have spent four decades watching him play the all-American hero may be surprised by how far his own family tree...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff7d ago
It began with a father from Athy who noticed marks on his 17-year-old daughter's legs at the seaside and learned she had been strapped at her boarding school for reading a smuggled novel.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff7d ago
With Halloween just weeks away, few dishes carry as much Irish folklore as colcannon, the humble combination of floury mashed potato and wilted kale or green cabbage that has since won fans far...
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd7d 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 Hill7d 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'Doherty7d 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 Hertz7d 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 Staff7d 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 Murphy8d 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 Mulraney8d 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 Keane8d 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 Rochford8d 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 Gilligan8d 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 Burke8d 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 Staff8d 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 Langan8d 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.
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