Myles Dillon spent fifty years arguing that early Ireland and ancient India shared more than a distant ancestor — this is his story, and his case

What follows is a 10th-century poem describing events set in the seventh century. It records an imagined conversation between King Guaire (Guare) of Connacht and his brother Marvan (Marban), a...

Published in 1924, the book is a study of the Irish-language poets who kept a native learned culture alive across Cork, Kerry, and Limerick through the eighteenth century, long after...

Muirbretha, the “sea-judgements,” is the main surviving Brehon law text on maritime affairs, and it survives only because a handful of scribes thought it worth copying fragments of it into...

In 1317, Irish chieftains led by Domhnall Ó Néill sent a remarkable plea to Pope John XXII, arguing centuries before the Enlightenment that Ireland had every right to rule itself.

Ask most people, even most Irish people, to name a famine, and they’ll give you one answer: the Great Hunger of the 1840s (or An Gorta Mór; though a growing...

This article is for anyone curious to learn more about their family history and genealogy. It includes essential resources, records, and strategies for successfully tracing one’s Irish ancestry. From vital...

OR, A Hypothetical Timeline of Irish History Note – Anno mundi, (Latin: “in the year of the world”), abbreviation A.M, the year dating from the year of creation in Jewish chronology, based on rabbinic calculations....

To understand why Newfoundland sounds the way it does, you have to go back further than the fishery — back to the collapse of the old Gaelic order itself. The...

Auraicept na n-Éces, or The Scholars' Primer, is one of the most important and fascinating surviving texts from medieval Ireland. It stands as the earliest known native Irish treatise on...