My seven-year-old stood tall, whispered “bravery” to herself and stepped into the pitch-black dungeon. I stood there and watched her disappear.

The Viking invasion of Ireland was made far easier as the country’s population had dwindled so much they were able to offer little resistance when the men in longboats started raiding these shores.

Two decades after a memorable visit to the midlands, Martin Claffey returns to the Hidden Heartlands.

Lorna Siggins When a replica of an Iron Age logboat is launched for the first time on Lough Corrib today

On February 7 this year, Cork’s Historical & Archaeological Society held a lecture in Crawford Art Gallery at 8pm.

It is hard to imagine now when strolling around Omey Island's sand-dunes and marshes that the island was once home to 397 people, writes Dan MacCarthy

There is something magical about embarking on a boat trip into the past where for part of your journey there is almost nothing modern in the scene before you apart from the bow of the boat, writes Dan MacCarthy.

Are you a Gael, a Celt, a Viking or British? According to a new study, it may depend on where you live in Ireland.

Residents living near a spectacular 1,000-year-old round tower said to be one of the finest of its kind in the country — but closed to the public for the past 30 years —are to launch a campaign to raise money to refurbish it and reopen it.

With 1,300 years of history, Ireland’s ‘Alcatraz’ has been named Europe’s No 1 tourist attraction, writes Sean O’Riordan

Just south of Clew Bay and sandwiched between Clare Island and Inishbofin is the roughly equally-sized island of Inishturk.

Our coastal islands possess fascinating stories but the almost countless islands on Irish lakes have their fair share of stories too: an abandoned hippy colony on Roeillaun in Lough Corrib Co Galway; a round tower sacked by the Vikings on Devenish Island, Co Fermanagh. 

A new book analyses our relationship with the country’s rapidly disappearing natural environment, writes Anne Lucey

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Fiann Ó Nualláin on plants and herbs that co-habit beautifully — and in binary and non-binary ways, too.

 

Ubisoft released a new For Honor trailer, which shows the three warring factions in action.

Gyles Quay is on the outskirts of Waterford City, but located in the more dominant hurling stronghold of Kilkenny. 

Kya deLongchamps visits a classic 18th century Georgian house with gorgeous gardens beautifully incorporated into its seven acres.

A thoroughly modern romance.

Soaring interest in the Vikings has prompted an Irish university to try to set up the world’s largest online information service about them.

USA: To a girl aged two in South Carolina, struggling to get dressed is an emergency. The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office says the child called 911, asking for help getting dressed.

‘Home of the Year’ begins a new series on RTÉ One on Thursday, with new judge Deirdre Whelan joining Hugh Wallace, and Declan O’ Donnell.

Check out our guide to the best of today's TV.

As the days get shorter and the nights get colder many animals are preparing strategies for surviving the winter. 

I write to thank you on behalf of my three friends (history buffs) and myself from the United States who have been on holidays this past week in this wonderful part of Ireland called Cork City and county.

Another month, another batch of free games on the way for PlayStation Plus subscribers. These titles will be free to download from August 4th, which also means you have less than a week to download July’s titles.

Yesterday saw the release date of a film by Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon, entitled Song of the Sea, which earlier this year was nominated for an Academy Award. 

Kilkenny hurling supremo Brian Cody is not in the habit of co-operating with the likes of Waterford and Wexford, but has made an exception to join in the south-east region’s bid to become European Capital of Culture.

Tommy Barker on reasons you’ll be glad of this top floor two-bed pad.

A new book offer unrivalled insight into life in the 9th century. Clodagh Finn turns the clock back.

Six months after staggering through college, and confused as to my future prospects, I took a working post in southern Sweden. 

THERE’S so much we don’t know about birds. For example, the diets of blackbirds and song thrushes are radically different, although they belong to the same family. 

OUR summer migrant birds are starting to leave and our winter visitors will soon be flying in from the north.

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