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Scary Lanterns – Halloween at the National Museum of Ireland- Country Life

Scary lanterns for walking with or placing in windowsills Candles were placed in windows. Carved turnips were popular for turning[…]

Croagh Patrick, nicknamed ‘the Reek’, is a mountain with a height of 764 m and an important site of pilgrimage[…]

The Small Farmer in Ireland A Look back in Time at the small farmer in Ireland in the eighties in[…]

Just what did Ireland do in the Second World War? The famous Easter Rising of 1916 occurred when the British[…]

Here is an look at the history of Both Ireland and finland and how there are stark similarities Credit[…]

In 1971 Sam and Beatrice Kelly left Northern Ireland on a round-the-world trip in a campervan. Fifty years later, memories[…]

Inishkea, situated off the coast of the Mullet peninsula, is one of the ultimate Wild Atlantic Way stops. Credit[…]

The Mussenden Temple and Downhill Demesne The Mussenden Temple and Downhill Demesne is a National Trust property consisting of Downhill[…]

Land of the Young (or Eternal Youth), famously known in Irish as Tír an nÓg. (Extract from “Irish Mythology Online[…]

Cumann na nGaedheal merged with the smaller National Centre Party in 1933 to form Fine Gael Following the Civil War[…]