The great households of medieval Ireland were experts at wielding their hospitality and their power at Christmas festivities ...

A researcher in the Global Irish Studies Initiative at Georgetown University (GIS) explored the early medieval history of animal disease in Ireland at a talk March 27. Singer said that although other ...

A new exhibition at Kilkenny’s Medieval Mile Museum focuses on the lives of the people who lived in the city during the medieval period. Three years ago, skeletal remain were uncovered during ...

“Wolfwalkers” directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart didn’t conceive of the idea for their animated, Irish folklore parable until 2013 as they were finishing their previous film “Song of the Sea.” But ...

When the glories of Irish culture are debated, discussions invariably center on the epic works by its great writers and poets, by the brilliance of its balladeers, by the exuberance of its traditional ...

Halloween is still more than one month away but archeologists working in Ireland have uncovered a couple of 8th century human skeletons that point to a ghoulish story. The skeletons, dug up between ...

Step into a world of battles, famine, feuds and power struggles in an epic road trip through medieval Irish history. This one-day adventure back in time will take in three of Ireland’s most majestic ...

A medieval composite pen made out of animal bone and a copper alloy was found in an 11th-century settlement in Ireland. The tool's secular setting is a rare find, as literacy in Ireland was generally ...

Dr. Geraldine Parsons, Senior Lecturer in Celtic and Gaelic and Head of Subject at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, lectures on "The Quiet Girls of Early Ireland: Women in Medieval Irish ...