The free-to-use Irish Genealogy website has been updated to include even more Irish birth, marriage, and death records.

Many in Ireland were astounded to see online videos of two Irish leftist eccentrics presenting at a four-day “conference” in ...

Poetry should be celebrated every day of the year, but this World Poetry Day, we'd like to take a moment to introduce you to ...

The film follows a young couple, fresh from London, who move back to a tiny farming community and bond with its aging ...

I got to know him better when we became neighbours in Clontarf where his poetry sold well in Nolan’s supermarket and where he was loved by all and sundry. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp ...

Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, who was born 150 years ago on April 22nd, gave himself the title “The O’Rahilly” from the Gaelic ...

William and his assistants were nonetheless able to build solid pillars of data, mass death ... Irish nationalists for whom the famine stood as the ultimate proof of English perfidy. But in her ...

Chrysanthemums and wine are featured often in his poetry, which was judged as too simple in his own era and wasn’t appreciated until centuries after his death. Afar o’er life’s turrets and ...

THE swallows and the cuckoos will soon be with us again. When we listen in a spiritual mood, these birds are emblematic of a ...

BogSkin, an exhibition by the Royal Hibernian Academy, prods us by showing that Ireland’s bogs aren’t simply repositories for ...

Hundreds of people gathered at the Muintir na Tíre Hall in Milltown on Saturday evening to celebrate the life and times of a ...

As Lebanon teeters on the edge, Beirut’s people live between resilience and ruin, caught in an unending cycle of conflict ...