“Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history,” Novalis said. It was subtle of Penelope Fitzgerald to use this as the epigraph for her historical novel about the poet, “The Blue Flower,” implying, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three tourists in Dublin city centre, Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin 1, Ireland. From the earliest African arrivals on Irish shores, ...

The ruins of Dunamase Castle tower over County Laois in Ireland. It's been centuries since anyone lived here, but an American tour group has come to imagine what life might have been like when their ...

Ireland's leaders have launched the 2021 program for the Decade of Centenaries to mark key events in Irish history leading up to, and including, the momentous events of 1912-1923. The 20th Century ...

In this animation, a tourist in a Dublin pub gets more than they bargained for when Ding Dong Denny launches into his "history of Ireland." "Ding Dong Denny's History of Ireland," written and narrated ...

‘Irish writers, poets, playwrights, artists are rightly celebrated, but no one knows about the clockmakers,’ one donor said. By Sandra Jordan WATERFORD, Ireland — Ireland’s long history of horology ...

A protest mural in Dublin, seen in 2012, honors the women sentenced to the workhouses in Ireland known as Magdalene Laundries. (William Murphy/ Wikimedia Commons) From the late 18th century to 1996, ...