Irish Interest

Did you know?Ireland's only sea battle, the Battle of Tory Island, was fought off the Donegacoast in 1798.The first casualties of the 1916 Easter Rising were three members of the...

Jesuit priest and amateur photographer, Fr Francis Browne is renowned for his images of the Titanic. However, much less well-known are the pictures that Fr Browne took of Irish country...

Since 2012 Robert O'Byrne has produced theirishaesthete. com, an award-winning site exploring the country's extensive architectural heritage through words and pictures, In 2024 Lilliput Press published a collection of his...

From the author and photographer behind Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, Ireland’s Islands, Ireland’s Ancient East and this year’s Wild Ireland: A Nature Journey from Shore to Peak, among other titles,...

The Celtic approach to life is holistic, with little distinction made between the sacred and the secular, or between the physical world and the spiritual one. This spiritual awareness grew...

In 1900 Belfast had the world's biggest linen factories and its largest ropeworks. Its shipbuilding industry produced more tonnage than any other city's (Titanic and Olympic were both built here)....

Read Ulysses and be glad! 18 limericks and illustrations by the cartoonist, artist, writer and raconteur Tom Mathews that brilliantly and hilariously encapsulate each of the 18 episodes of the...

Who else but the Irish can perform minor miracles with a prayer to St Anthony? Or truly appreciate the medicinal purposes of flat 7Up? Not to mention the front room,...

I started writing this book as an exclusively work memoir but the work and the personal kept overlapping. I don't know if that's because I'm a woman or a mother...

This volume takes inspiration from Professor Catherine Shannon's scholarship on Modern Irish and Irish American history and her advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland and features original research by distinguished...

Available Open Access under CC-BY licence.Irish law currently permits abortion only where the life of the pregnant woman is at risk. Since 1983, the 8th Amendment to the Constitution has...

Older than the Egyptian pyramids, older than Stonehenge, for 5,000 years the ancient megalithic tomb at Newgrange in County Meath has housed the remains of Stone Age 'aristocracy', sheltering the...

This book asks a simple question: how happy are we, and are we really willing to do what it will take to become happier? The National Happiness Experiment was a...