Starting in the 18th century, Magdalene asylums—named after Mary Magdalene, a friend of Jesus often described as a repentant ...

The Irish actor joins Q’s Tom Power to talk about his latest film, plus, how his friends keep him humble after winning an ...

Metropolitan Workshop is to transform an unusual and much-loved 18th-century agricultural building in rural Ireland into a ...

The Irish School, 18th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Since 2001 the record price for ...

I FEEL about six years old, hands and knees covered in thick mud, as I emerge from a tunnel only big enough to crawl through, first used by Christian settlers more than 1,200 years ago to escape ...

Dublin’s Portobello neighborhood has a checkered history. Built on a picturesque canal, it began life in the 18th century as ...

Whiskey stands as a testament to the artistry of distillation, a liquid symphony made with grain, water, and time. From the ...

Goldsmith was a writer whose personality, like his work, has divided people. In his own time, and through the 19th century, ...

This underrated estate in Ireland is rich with history and culture, surrounded by a serene mountain landscape and spectacular gardens.

Leeches made a medical comeback as “hirudotherapy”, starting in the 1960s and widely used since the 1980s. Researchers have ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain (pronounced SAW-en).  But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature ...