It’s mentioned in an ancient treatise on grammar, Auraicept na n-Éces (“Instruction of the poets”), thought to date from the ...

A postcard from Mexico to Belfast, circa 1923 As a college graduate in the 1970's, American Kerby Miller saw the value in the ...

Folklorists created a through line from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain to Halloween. But the Halloween we know today has more to do with the English, a 9th century pope and American consumerism.

Two Irish Dancers from Market Drayton have been crowned world champions at an international competition. Toby Nellins and ...

Historian Maurice J. Casey spoke with GCN about his latest book, Hotel Lux, which has recently been shortlisted for The Irish ...

Rallying continues to be the most popular spectrum of Irish motorsport that is enjoying a strong wave of success both ...

Yet The Irish Times continues to give valuable space on the letters page to these aforementioned groups and former members of these groups whose views are already well known. These groups are also ...

The massive 800-page collection includes messages written by the Nobel Prize winner around the time Lawrence WIlson was ...

Sense of loss of family acute in the letters of Irish emigrants during the Famine, but there was hope, too, in the New World.

In the wake of Donald Trump's triumph in the US, and ahead of Ireland's general election, a reader expresses the hope that ...