Sheppard’s An auction of Transport Museum and Vernacular Collections takes place online and live at Sheppard’s in Durrow, Co Laois, on May 13. Highlights include a 19th-century penny farthing bicycle ...

The first weekend in May is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser at Glen Echo Park, the historic amusement park on the C&O Canal in ...

Cultural historian and Spacing contributor Cheryl Thompson launches her new book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic, tonight ...

Three sets of ancestral human remains taken from burial caves in Hawaii and brought to Belfast in the 19th century have been ...

Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights ...

From a €125,000 lock house to a €1.95m mansion on 23.9 acres, there’s a period property for everyone Cangort House, Shinrone, Birr Doonamurray House, Ballygawley 38th Lock House ...

Friel’s characters are mostly involved in a so-called Hedge School, in essence the equivalent of joint home-schooling in 19th century Ireland, where Gaelic is the dominant language. (Most people ...

Celebrated Irish playwright Brian Friel made the subject of his play “Translations” quite clear. He said his play “has to do with language and only language,” an issue he described in a ...

The Reverend Dr Henry Cooke, a famous Presbyterian minister from the 19th century, evangelised in Irish and required students for the ministry to go to classes in the language. Alastair Bonar had ...

[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.] ...

Indian Company Paintings, c. 1790–1835, dedicated to artworks produced by Indian artists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries for European patrons. The exhibition, held at DAG’s Windsor ...