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, ...

Explore the history of Ireland from 100 CE to 2019, highlighting significant events and developments throughout the years.

A research fellow in history at De Montfort University Leicester (U.K.), Cronin offers synopsis with little insight in this overview of Irish history. Starting with ancient Gaelic Ireland, he quickly ...

“Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history,” Novalis said. It was subtle of Penelope Fitzgerald to use this as the epigraph for her historical novel about the poet, “The Blue Flower,” implying, ...

“Ouch!” You’ll say that more than once when reading Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves. American readers familiar with O’Toole from his reviews in The New York Review of Books or his work as a ...

Analysis: The father of English history was an admirer of Medieval Ireland's history and culture - and especially Irish missionaries Ireland’s landscape and its rich past have been romanticised and ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A tradition 200 years strong, majorly influenced by Savannah’s large Irish population. But why did so many Irishmen end up in the heart of the South? Dr. Howard Keeley is the ...