And the sources for what happened are just simply not there to tell us when people started playing the game of hurling. What ...

40 years ago this weekend, the world turned on the biggest global jukebox it had ever seen and heard as two massive concerts ...

The Last Irish Missionaries is produced with funding from Coimisiún na Meán's Sound & Vision Fund. The Last Irish ...

An oral history of the festival sees artists discussing events which have since become favourites among audiences who saw them live ...

Two decades on, breeding success is poor and the golden eagle's future in Ireland is uncertain so what went wrong?

By 1901, there was one nun per 400 members of the Irish population and many of these women left the country for missionary ...

The addition of ladies' football to the field of Gaelic games has transformed the sporting landscape for women on and off the pitch ...

Are there lessons for Cork and Tipperary in how Limerick trainer Jim D'Alton prepared his All Ireland winners in 1919?

An exhibition celebrating best-selling espionage author John Le Carré is due to open in Oxford, showcasing the writer's ...

Some of the modern and ancient ways in which farmers are trying to cope with the heatwave include sunscreen, flavoured ice blocks and paddling pools for cows. There is a renewed appreciation for ...

The work of Donegal people who emigrated to Scotland in the 20th century is being celebrated in a major new exhibition that ...

An exhibition opens in Galway tomorrow, featuring photographs spanning half a century, of the Druid Theatre Company by ...