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"When earlier Irish writers came across references to dancing in the Bible, they described the action using words for "performing feats" and "leaping"."

Whiskey, dancing, insults: the history of Ireland in 100 words

History / 17 hrs

Sunrise over the Peace Bridge in Derry. Photo: Breandan Murray

How memories of a past can be a powerful resource for the future

Policy / 17 Oct

A page from a previously undiscovered 15th-century Irish vellum manuscript showing a connection between Gaelic Ireland and the Islamic world. Photo: Irish Script On Screen/Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

A closer look at the Irish medieval book

History / 17 Oct

"Stormy Daniels refused to allow accusations of sexual immorality to be used as a means to shame her into silence"

The historical links between Stormy Daniels and Jonathan Swift

History / 10 Oct

Primary school teachers make their point with placards at the INTO congress in Galway in April 2019

How the Easter Rising split Ireland's largest teachers' union

History / 10 Oct

Bishop Francis Moylan planned and oversaw the building of Cork Cathedral. Photo: Cork Cathedral https://www.corkcathedral.ie/

Francis Moylan, Ireland's 18th century kingmaker and power broker

History / 09 Oct

"The Minister for Finance has the weight of the past, and not just expectations of the future, on his shoulders"

A history of Irish budgets

Brainstorm / 07 Oct

"History can foster citizenship in ways that other subjects cannot."

Why the study of history is so crucial for our society

History / 04 Oct

Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders

Who were the real Peaky Blinders?

Peaky Blinders / 08 Oct

The Harlem Kiddies in the St. Thomas club, Copenhagen 1941 Photo: Little Beat Records

How an Afro-Jewish band was embraced by Nazi-occupied Denmark

Brainstorm / 27 Sep

"The 'Michaelmas goose' is traditionally roasted and eaten on that day"

Geese, daisies and debts: Michaelmas customs in Ireland of old

History / 27 Sep

"In liquid modernity, we must be careful what we wish for"

Brexit, Orwell's 1984 and living in liquid modernity

Brexit / 28 Sep

Charles Stewart Parnell surveys Dublin's O'Connell Street: "no man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation"

The latest Parnell revival

History / 19 Sep

The nine surviving members of the 1892 Laune Rangers Kerry team, leading the parade during the opening ceremony of the Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney in May 1936. Photo: Fitzgerald Stadium Archive

How controversy reigned when Kerry and Dublin clashed in 1893

Purrrr

The science of stroking a cat

Papa Doc Duvalier: from country doctor to truly nasty piece of work

So you want to be a dictator...

History / 05 Sep

Daniel O'Connell: "he had a huge ego and his vanity was legendary"

Who was the real Daniel O'Connell?

Daniel O'Connell / 29 Aug

George Gabriel Stokes. Image: Royal Society

The story of Irish mathematician George Gabriel Stokes

History / 28 Aug

Irish Ambassador to the United States William Fay pins shamrocks on Richard Nixon's lapel on St Patrick's Day 1969 during an event at the White House in Washington. Photo: AP/US Embassy Dublin

What Ireland's man in America saw during the events of 1969

History / 03 Sep

"New additions to a dictionary of medieval language are lost words that have been rediscovered"

10 medieval Irish words we didn't know about before now

Gaeilge / 27 Sep

A banner with pictures of people who went missing during the dictatorship of General Franco at a recent protest in Madrid. Photo: John Milner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Why past events like the Spanish Civil War still resonate today

"The Rural Electrification Scheme was an enormous logistical, capital, technological and cultural project that transformed the Irish countryside"

Lessons on climate action from the Rural Electrification scheme

Climate Change / 21 Aug

"This is an outfit that has increasingly been mythologised and marketed as extraordinary and spectacular, beyond the realms of the everyday"

Say yes to the dress: a history of the wedding dress

Fashion / 20 Aug

James Joyce: portrait of the artist as a young cattleman

What did James Joyce have to say about the Irish beef industry?

James Joyce / 20 Aug

An Irish CND march in Dublin in 1983

The story of Ireland's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

History / 21 Aug

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