The hidden side of Ireland’s built heritage is reflected in a series of new books. The architectural historian Robert O’Byrne, who runs the blog The Irish Aesthete, has compiled Buildings of ...

Holy Cross Abbey has been restored and is now a parish church. Three thousand people gathered for the reopening of the 800 year old abbey near Thurles in County Tipperary.

The result was the Cross-Border Orchestra of Ireland, ... Her first collaboration in 1995 involved just two schools - her own and the Abbey Christian Brothers' Grammar in Newry, ...

A piece of the cross on which Jesus Christ was said to have been crucified is returning to an ancient abbey -- months after a larger version of the same holy relic was stolen from it.

A new production of Double Cross by Thomas Kilroy - one of Ireland's greatest living playwrights – opens this evening in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Co-produced by the Abbey Theatre and Lyric ...

Dublin, Ireland, Feb 1, 2025 / 04:00 am. Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain ...

A volatile cocktail: World War 2. Stormy politics. Nationalism. Fascism. Power. Propaganda. High treason. Playwright, Thomas Kilroy's illuminating script spotlights two Irishmen, both influential ...

Those celebrations begin on Sunday, December 8, when a bust of Willie Hayes will be unveiled following a special celebratory mass at 2.30pm. Willie Hayes was a curate in the abbey at the time and ...

While the Abbey wasn’t Dublin’s first theatre, it was undoubtedly the first of its kind to produce plays that were written by Irish playwrights and performed by Irish actors.

Northern Ireland Dramatic new photos show bones of close to 150 bodies found following complex dig at site of medieval abbey in Carrickfergus Most of the bodies were male, a number female and ...

Deeply researched and lavishly illustrated, this book is truly a labour of love. McIntosh lived in Abbey Lea from 2020 to 2024, while her husband, Gary Gray, served as ambassador to Ireland.