Ireland has always been called the land of saints and scholars. But there’s much more to us than that. We’re also a land of inventors, engineers,…
Ireland’s newly elected government deputies met for the first time on 21st January 1919. Nowadays, complaining about our elected officials (often with good cause) makes for a…
Early Irish poetry, remembered and transmitted orally by the ancient bards, was like no other art form in the world. We take a look at some…
Irish bardic poetry was an intensely complicated tradition. Produced by specially trained bardic poets and written in Early or Middle Irish, these poems came about during…
The huge success of the Old Moore’s Almanac meant that copycat versions continually sprang to life, all wanting a piece of the pie. We take a…
