Irish names are very often derived from ancient Celtic mythology, and the name Deirdre was inspired by the tragic story of a ...

The Irish name Aodh can be used for a boy or a girl, but originated in ancient folklore, as the name of a God and the eldest ...

Well, the name evolved over many centuries from the old Irish word for a Goddess; Ériu ... more antiquated way of describing Ireland is ‘Hibernia’ which is the word the Romans used to ...

The Irish contemporary Gothic will be the focus of Haunted Hibernia, a conference taking place from October 28th – 29th in Carlow College and VISUAL Carlow. Over two days, academics, writers ...

Peat bogs may not be unique to Ireland, but their place in the Irish cultural imagination certainly ... And yet, as the Royal Hibernian Academy’s BogSkin exhibition shows, if you wanted to ...

Organiser Jack Phelan introduces Haunted Hibernia, a forthcoming conference ... that have occurred in Ireland since the end of the Celtic Tiger'. Ireland's history is soaked in change, revolution ...