Wren Day was once as common throughout the country at Christmas time as turkey dinners are today. This amazing tradition still survives in parts of the…
Advertising in the 1969 Old Moore’s Almanac was very different than it is today. For starters, there were a lot more ads. In a pre-internet world,…
1969 was an eventful year, to say the least. We turn the clock back fifty years to remember what was happening in the world, and what…
The seanchaí were the storytellers of Ireland; the word means bearer of old lore. The seanchaí were preceded in Ireland by the bardic poets, who were central to the…
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,…
