Deep inside limestone caves in southwestern Ireland, researchers say they have found traces of people who reached the island ...

Cave art located in eight caves in Ireland may indicate that people were there thousands of years before conventional views ...

From Newgrange and Glendalough to Cobh, Waterford’s Viking Triangle, and the Rock of Cashel, the guide points travelers toward some of the most storied stops in Ireland’s Ancient East. The list also ...

This time-lapse video from Tourism Ireland unearths some of the historical wonders from the east coast of Ireland. The short film “Dawn to Dusk in Ireland’s Ancient East” gives viewers the chance to ...

As for ancient bonfires, the Irish and Britons built them to celebrate Beltaine, but not Samhain—at least, not according to the medieval tales. In 19th-century Ireland, All Hallows Eve was a time for ...

ACHILL ISLAND, IRELAND—When a severe storm recently struck Achill Island in Ireland’s County Mayo, the intense winds caused extensive damage, tearing off roofs and knocking down power lines. RTÉ News ...

The unusual lack of rain, combined with a fortuitous drone flight has revealed an ancient henge in Ireland's Boyne Valley. Much of the discovery was right timing and right place as Ireland is in the ...

An international team of volcanologists working on Carlingford Mountain has found that liquid "magma chambers" do not always exist beneath volcanoes. The team instead demonstrated that magma "plumbing ...

Archaeologists and geneticists have shed new light on the earliest periods of Ireland's human history. Among their incredible findings is the discovery that the genome of an adult male buried in the ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, ...