How Cúchulainn became Teddy Roosevelt’s favourite bedtime story
By Kenneth McNally
Once upon a time.......well yes, it happened many years ago; but this is no whimsical fairy tale, rather the little-known story of...
Michael Darragh MacAuley: A Concerned Citizen
By John Scally
Dublin star Michael Darragh MacAuley follows the advice of Oscar Wilde: “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”
The 2013 Footballer of the...
Murder of a Cork Fenian in Chicago
By Pauline Murphy
Philip Henry Cronin was born on August 7th, 1846, in Buttevant, Co. Cork but An Gorta Mór (The Great Fame) was sweeping...
A Cork village buys back a piece of its past!
By Paulin Murphy
During the summer of 2019, a shillelagh used in an infamous County Cork faction fight went under the hammer at Foinse Mealy...
My World War I Ghost
By Martin Malone
The helmet has been with me for 43 years, give or take some relatively short separations. For a while, it hung on...
Female Politicians
By Aileen Atcheson
Charles Stewart Parnell was President of the Land League and Home Rule MP during the 1870s and 1880s. Fanny and Anna were...
The Rocky Road to Somewhere
By Peter P Dobbing
For far too many years, relationships across the Irish Sea were a trifle fraught as they say, not necessarily between the...
Lessons I Happily Learned at Primary School
By Tom Ryan
Were my schooldays the happiest days of my life? Maybe not all of them but I do have many pleasant memories of...
The Days of the Greyfort Races
Recalled by James Reddiough
Jack ‘John’ McGloin was born in Greyfort House, Currower, Attymass in 1889 and he died there on 31 October, 1968....
Dublin in the ‘Good Old Days!’
By Cheryl Devaney
Henrietta Street, in Dublin’s north inner city, dates from the 1720s and represents the best collection of early to mid eighteenth century...
Bloomers and Booze Worth More Than Art?
By Shaun Ivory
While the 1916 Rising undoubtedly changed the course of Irish history, it also produced an unexpected side effect, i.e., one of the...
A man who touched and transformed the lives of so many people
By John Fitzgerald
In January 2019, north Kilkenny said goodbye to a very special man: The great Larry Cummins, whose mission in life had been...
Nun who Founded Addiction & Rehabilitation Centres is Honoured with Oireachtas Award
By Sean Ryan
A Mercy nun who founded vital addiction and rehabilitation centres, that still treat thousands of people for over half a century, has...
The Bard’s Siblings and an Irish Connection
By Marie MacSweeney
The spirit and songs of Robbie Burns are fondly remembered and celebrated throughout the world, and especially in Ireland, but few know...
Niall Tóibín: The Man of Many Accents
By Brian McCabe
Lovers of drama and comedy in Ireland will have noted, with sadness, the passing of that much loved actor Niall Tóibín.
Tóibín was...
The ‘Mud Hut’ and the ‘Mansion’
By Joseph Kelly
Coyle's Cottage is situated in Co. Tyrone, on the western shore of Lough Neagh and is estimated to be at least 300...
Ireland’s Mysterious Stones
By Michael Hannon
Stones seem to have a strange fascination for very many people. I suppose the reason may be that we are ever curious...
Horse Doctors – The old and the new
By Carmel Kelly-Palmer
Stephen Croghan has spent his life as a blacksmith and farrier. The very mention of the words brings a smile to his...
The Rusted Iron Cross
By Martin Malone
Some stories run beyond the reach of legend, are fact, but their detail has been lost and become hazy in the wheel...
X, His Mark
By Martin Malone
An uncle of mine is big into genealogy and has thus far unearthed a plethora of information concerning our ancestors. Many people...