Oona Doherty brings her Belfast ghost story to New York this Halloween
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff·2d ago
Oona Doherty is returning to New York with the strangest and most personal work of her career, a dance theater piece built around the boy her family still talks about.
Ireland's seafood chowder started as poor man's food and now has its own festival
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff·2d ago
Chowder earned its place on Irish menus the honest way, as cheap, filling food made from whatever the boats brought in, and it is the sort of thing worth having on the hob now that the evenings...
The most famous song about Tipperary was first written about Connemara
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd·2d ago
Jack Judge was an English former fishmonger who claimed he knocked out "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" in a single night in January 1912, but the song had a longer history than that.
US could "potentially" play a role in Irish reunification, Taoiseach says
IrishCentral.comby Kerry O'Shea·3d ago
Ireland's Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that the US could "potentially" play a role in Irish reunification.
Irish American actor revealed as first honoree for 2027 Oscar Wilde Awards
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff·3d ago
The US-Ireland Alliance has announced Jack Reynor as its first honoree for the annual Oscar Wilde Awards, which will be held on March 11, 2027, at The Ebell of Los Angeles, California.
LISTEN: Honoring Project Children with Catherine Flood and Linda Croston
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff·3d ago
In 1975, three Catholic and three Protestant children from Northern Ireland stepped off a plane at JFK for a summer away from The Troubles.
Revealed: How much Mark Zuckerberg paid for Waterford castle
IrishCentral.comby Colum Motherway·3d ago
New figures have revealed how much Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, paid for Strancally Castle in Co Waterford.
Brendan Behan was too ill to write his last book so he talked it into a tape recorder
IrishCentral.comby Ella Rose Fingado·3d ago
The drafts, his editor Rae Jeffs's successive revisions, and the final version are all held in the American Irish Historical Society in New York, and together they show how much of "Confessions of...
Redmond O'Hanlon robbed Ulster for years and only a foster brother could stop him
IrishCentral.comby Eric Bryan·3d ago
Born around 1640 near Poyntzpass, Redmond O'Hanlon watched his family's lands pass to the English Crown and answered by taking to the hills with a gang of roughly 50 men.
Andrew Scott wins a standing ovation as "Elsinore" opens the London Film Festival
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff·3d ago
Andrew Scott's new film "Elsinore" opened the 70th BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday night, earning the Irish actor a long standing ovation at the Royal Festival Hall.
Churchill sent the Black and Tans into Ireland and handed the rebels their best recruiter
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd·3d ago
Winston Churchill was British Secretary of State for War when the Black and Tans arrived in Ireland on March 25, 1920, sent to crush a rebellion his cabinet still dismissed as the work of thugs and...
Ireland had vampires, demons and a headless horseman long before Halloween
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff·3d ago
Long before plastic fangs and pumpkin buckets arrived in Ireland, the Celts were already losing sleep over a cast of demons, shapeshifters and death-foretellers with names most of us can barely...
"The Fields of Athenry" sounds like an old Famine ballad but it was written in 1979
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd·4d ago
Most people who roar it from the terraces assume "The Fields of Athenry" was handed down from the starving generations of the 1840s. In fact, Pete St.
Betsy Gray rode into battle carrying a green flag and never came home
IrishCentral.comby Michelle K. Smith·4d ago
Betsy Gray was the daughter of a Presbyterian farmer in Co. Down, a fearless horsewoman who rode into the Battle of Ballynahinch on June 13, 1798, carrying a green flag beside the United Irish...
Irish dance world pays tribute as funeral details announced for Niamh Flatley
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff·4d ago
The funeral for Niamh Flatley (née O'Brien), the wife of Irish dance superstar Michael Flatley, will be held in Dublin on Saturday, October 10.
Integration still ‘a number of years’ away as GAA address McAleese’s departure
IrishCentral.comby Jonathan Browne·4d ago
The GAA Director General, Tom Ryan, has said that integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) and Camogie Association into the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is still "a number...
"Good craic" - Ireland named the friendliest country in Europe by Condé Nast Traveller readers
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff·4d ago
Ireland has been named the friendliest country in Europe - and home to one of the friendliest cities in Europe - in the Condé Nast Traveller Readers' Choice Awards 2026.
Mayo gave the world the word "boycott" by refusing to speak to one English agent
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd·4d ago
When Lord Erne's land agent moved against 11 tenants near Lough Mask in the autumn of 1880, the Mayo branch of the Land League did not raise a fist.
These witches' finger cookies are the creepiest thing you'll bake this Halloween
IrishCentral.comby Chef Michael Gilligan·4d ago
With Halloween just weeks away, there is still time to turn a simple batch of shortbread into something properly gruesome.
The Dublin friars who stood by the rebels while Ireland's bishops condemned them
IrishCentral.comby Joseph Connell·4d ago
Of the 31 bishops in Ireland in 1916, only one offered even a hedged condemnation of the Easter Rising, and the hierarchy ruled the revolt unjustified on every count.
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