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 ...

The Dubliner has a degree in Fine Art Media from the National College of Art & Design (NCAD) and works part-time in the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

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 ...

Albury's Catholic Apostolic Church is kept in pristine condition having been built in 1839. African Catholics, who are becoming more important in the Church, remember a man who spoke for them ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone ... who said she was ...

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 ...