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Tour guide recalls the lesser-known stories of Glasnevin’s dead in new book

New series “Taoscadh ón Tobar” showcases Ireland’s rich musical heritage

How a Kerry nun, Sr Noreen Dennehy, helped Msgr O’Flaherty save thousands of lives in WW2

Galway’s award-winning digital graveyard project records over 40,000 memorials

Free tour of ecclesiastical sites in East Galway planned for International Day for Monuments and Sites

St Brigid’s relics returning to Kildare after a millennium

Stories behind common Irish surnames explored in new genealogy series, “Sloinne”

Grand event at Claregalway Castle to cap off Galway’s Decade of Commemorations

New campaign to protect archaeological heritage encourages landowners to “check before you dig”

New oral history collection captures the story of old Kilcormac

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Tour guide Warren Farrell tells the lesser-known tales of Glasnevin’s dead in new book “So Once Was I: Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin Cemetery”.

Tour guide recalls the lesser-known stories of Glasnevin’s dead in new book

The Battle of Faughart on 14 October 1318 was fought between the Anglo-Irish loyal to King Edward II of England and an alliance of Scottish and Irish forces led by Scotsman Edward Bruce.

Bringing the 1318 Battle of Faughart and Edward Bruce back into focus

Sr Noreen Dennehy and Judge Hugh O’Flaherty holding a portrait of Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty, who saved thousands of lives during the Nazi occupation of Italy.

How a Kerry nun, Sr Noreen Dennehy, helped Msgr O’Flaherty save thousands of lives in WW2

Graveyard survey of Clontuskert Abbey, one of more than 30 sites in Galway where memorials have been recorded as part of the “Digitising Galway’s Graveyard Heritage” project.

Galway’s award-winning digital graveyard project records over 40,000 memorials

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Graveyard survey of Clontuskert Abbey, one of more than 30 sites in Galway where memorials have been recorded as part of the “Digitising Galway’s Graveyard Heritage” project.

Galway’s award-winning digital graveyard project records over 40,000 memorials

Clonony Castle in west Offaly.

Clonony Castle’s rich heritage and ties to the ill-fated Queen of England Anne Boleyn

Bellaghy bog body: Iron Age remains of teenage boy found in Co. Derry.

2,000-year-old Bellaghy bog body discovered during excavations in Derry

Statue of St Brigid in Market Square, Kildare.

St Brigid’s relics returning to Kildare after a millennium

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Graveyard survey of Clontuskert Abbey, one of more than 30 sites in Galway where memorials have been recorded as part of the “Digitising Galway’s Graveyard Heritage” project.

Galway’s award-winning digital graveyard project records over 40,000 memorials

Marriage settlements provide much useful information for Irish genealogical researchers.

Understanding marriage settlements for Irish family history research

Down Survey map for Oughteragh Parish, Carrigallin, Leitrim.

The townland: pathways to Ireland’s past

Exploring the lore behind seven Irish surnames, TG4's latest documentary series, "Sloinne", features Noelle Gallagher (Ní Mhurchú) and Brian Ó Cléirigh, pictured here at the Fr Murphy 1798 Centre in Wexford, as they trace the history of the Murphys.

Stories behind common Irish surnames explored in new genealogy series, “Sloinne”

US President John F. Kennedy's motorcade on Patrick Street in Cork in 1963.

Tracing John F. Kennedy’s Irish ancestry through Wexford, Limerick, Cork and Fermanagh

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St Patrick and Oisín

St Patrick’s contribution to the legends of the Fianna

Leap year dances and balls were very popular in late 19th and early 20th-century Ireland.

Leap year dances in Ireland 100 years ago

Custom of sending Valentine cards temporarily died out in early 1900s Ireland.

Custom of sending Valentine cards temporarily died out in early 1900s Ireland

The cuckoo in Irish folklore.

The cuckoo in Irish folklore

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Graveyard survey of Clontuskert Abbey, one of more than 30 sites in Galway where memorials have been recorded as part of the “Digitising Galway’s Graveyard Heritage” project.

Galway’s award-winning digital graveyard project records over 40,000 memorials

Tobernalt holy well in Sligo was vandalized.

Vandalism at Tobernalt historic holy well in Sligo

Bellaghy bog body: Iron Age remains of teenage boy found in Co. Derry.

2,000-year-old Bellaghy bog body discovered during excavations in Derry

Statue of St Brigid in Market Square, Kildare.

St Brigid’s relics returning to Kildare after a millennium

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