Ireland News News Ireland » History: Presumed Ice Age Cave Art Rewrites Ireland's History
Ireland's earliest known residents may have walked in from Wales, researchers say, citing evidence written on cave walls. An international team has identified eight caves in southwest Ireland bearing ...
News Ireland » History: Black Irish People: The History of Black Presence in Ireland Stretches Further Back Than You Might Think
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three tourists in Dublin city centre, Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin 1, Ireland. From the earliest African arrivals on Irish shores, ...
News Ireland » History: Discover Glen of Aherlow, a hidden valley in Ireland where ancient lore lives on and history seeps through every corner
Tucked between the Galtee Mountains and Slievenamuck, the Glen of Aherlow feels like a corner of Ireland that time forgot. From ancient tombs and holy wells to ruined friaries and old local legends ...
News Ireland » History: On This Day: Franco-Irish army drove the British out of Castlebar in 1798
The 1798 clash in County Mayo became known as the Castlebar Races after British soldiers fled in a panicked retreat from a force a third their size.
News Ireland » History: Irish and Jewish questions – the chosen people’s history in Ireland
An extract from “Irish Questions and Jewish Questions” a study of the Jews of Ireland and of their social history in Ireland. Editor's note: May marks the Jewish American Heritage Month in the United ...
News Ireland » History: Leprechauns Wore Red?! 5 Unexpected Facts about Irish History and Lore
Behind the shamrocks and gold-tipped rainbows, Ireland is packed with surprises—both in its history and in the ways it has shaped culture far beyond its shores. Sarah Erdman The Dingle Peninsula tells ...
News Ireland » History: Kamala Harris’ purported Irish ancestry highlights complicated backstory of identity and enslavement
When Barack Obama was elected president, the people of Moneygall in Ireland celebrated. Birthplace of Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather on his white mother’s side, the village commemorated the ...
News Ireland » History: ‘Irish history starts here’ – How Coleraine’s ancient Mountsandel site could become Northern Ireland’s next big attraction
The Mesolithic site in the Co Derry town is the oldest settlement site in Ireland, but is largely unmarked ...
News Ireland » History: Is St. Patrick Ireland’s True Hero? How Irish Women Are Reclaiming History
Growing up as an Irish woman, I often wondered why a Romano-British man became Ireland’s enduring global icon, eclipsing nearly every Irish woman in history. Yet every March, millions worldwide ...