Medieval writer Cogitosus described Kildare as a 'vast and metropolitan city' thanks to the presence of the tomb of St Brigid ...

Ó Hoireabhárd is a gifted writer of clear, lucid, prose; the book is also attractively laid out in a typeface that is easy on ...

Like Loch Ness in Scotland, the Shannon Estuary in Ireland has long been home to a fabled sea monster. Known as a Cathaigh — ...

20 Best Places to Visit in Ireland — From a Dark-sky Park With Milky Way Views to One of Europe's Highest Sea Cliffs Located in Limerick's medieval quarter along the mighty River Shannon ...

Kilkenny is also home to some of Ireland’s most vibrant medieval history, with remnants of Viking life still present today.

Conservation experts are carefully working to repair some of Ireland’s oldest documents, including a parish registry dating back to the medieval times. The 650-year-old ecclesiastical register ...

A major contact has been signed for a new €8m tourist attraction in Kilkenny City, that will explore the “darker side” of ...

This castle is famous for its medieval banquets that for many visitors, from the United States in particular, present a great last night in Ireland before returning home via Shannon Airport.

For her own part and, “rather than dividing the narrative between female and male religious”, she has attempted “to include women in the greater narrative of medieval Irish monasticism in ...

Lorrha & Dorrha Archaeological & Historical Society are delighted to announce their first talk for 2025. Dave Swift will present, ‘Late Medieval Helmets in Ireland c 1400-1600’, on this Friday, ...

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland. Dating back to the medieval period, the ecclesiastical ...