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 ...

Bechbretha or bee-judgments were the part of Brehon law which set out the rights and responsibilities associated with ...

A routine turf extraction in County Tipperary unearthed the miraculously preserved Faddan More Psalter, an 800 CE Latin Book ...

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 ...

Who owns a swarm of bees? And what happens when they stray onto a neighbour’s land? In early medieval Ireland, such questions were addressed by a remarkable set of laws known as the Bechbretha, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stone towers rise above quiet green fields. A wooden bridge crosses still water. Beyond it stands one of Ireland’s most ...

Analysis: The father of English history was an admirer of Medieval Ireland's history and culture - and especially Irish missionaries Ireland’s landscape and its rich past have been romanticised and ...

The medieval Dunluce Castle, located on the craggy rocks of Northern Ireland's coast, is neighbors with a mysterious stone settlement, according to a recent excavation. The castle dates back to the ...

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 ...