The author’s narrative choices will not be to the taste of some readers but he has packed a pleasing amount of knowledge and ...

Favouring restraint over spectacle, these stories offer intimate portraits of people shaped by history, disappointment, ...

For as Trinity College Dublin’s Prof Micheál Ó Siochrú was quoted as saying in this very paper just the other week, most British historians “have absolutely no understanding of Ireland, no interest in ...

The ruins of Dunamase Castle tower over County Laois in Ireland. It's been centuries since anyone lived here, but an American tour group has come to imagine what life might have been like when their ...

Across Ireland’s countryside, history and heritage tourism meet, sharing a haunted landscape born of legend and folk culture, heavenly apparitions, political violence and sheer human folly. Beehive ...