The Abbey Leix Estate, Abbeyleix, County Laois, Ireland
The Abbey Leix Estate A splendid and most distinguished Irish 18th-century mansion positioned within a remarkable and ancient woodland demesne[…]
Read more
Tag: irishculture
Castle Hyde, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland
Castle Hyde An impressive and important Irish country home delightfully positioned within some 150 acres on the banks of the[…]
Read more
Ulster Scots Journey – Part 1
Ulster Scots Journey Comedian Tim McGarry looks at the history of the Scots in Ulster up to the 1609 plantation.[…]
Read more
Ulster Scots Journey – Part 2
Ulster Scots Journey Comedian Tim McGarry looks at the history of the Scots in Ulster up to the 1609 plantation.[…]
Read more
Rebellion and Retribution – 1641 and Cromwell – Ireland
Rebellion in Ireland 1641 Rebellion in Ireland followed by Oliver Cromwell’s campaign of retribution beginning with Drogheda. Credit to[…]
Read more
The Tudor Conquest of Ireland
Conquest of Ireland Includes O’Neill’s campaign against Elizabethan soldiers through to the “Flight of the Earls” Credit to :[…]
Read more
Norman Impact on Everyday Life in Ireland
Anglo-French Charts Gaelic life at the time of the Norman invasion as well as the invasion itself. By 1177, the[…]
Read more
Arthur Fields – Man on Bridge in Dublin for more than 50 Years
Irish Street Photographer Arthur Fields (born Abraham Feldman; 1901–1994) was a Ukrainian-born Irish street photographer, who took more than 180,000[…]
Read more
Kindred Spirits – The Choctaw-Irish Bond Lives On
Choctaw People The story begins in 1831, when the Choctaw people were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Mississippi.[…]
Read more
Wild Fox Spotted on Grafton Street in Dublin, Ireland
Spotted on Grafton Street Urban wildlife seen on Dublin city’s biggest shopping street. Now empty due to Covid-19! Credit[…]
Read more