In the heart of County Kerry lies a land of contrasts, where rare ferns and moss blanket lush valleys of ancient forests, ...

The ancient Irish were at least familiar with the notion of reincarnation, ... It tells how Connacht's Queen Medbh and her husband Aillil waged war on Ulster over possession of the mighty bull ...

In a nutshell A new study challenges the idea that the so-called “king” buried at Newgrange was part of a royal dynasty, arguing that the archaeological and genetic evidence doesn’t support claims of ...

Ancient Irish myths and legends will get you in the Halloween and Samhain spirit. ... Queen Maeve. 2. A depiction of Queen Maeve and a druid from Queen Meave and by Stephen Reid (Public Domain) ...

Ancient human remains uncovered in a Co Derry bog are believed to belong to a young woman who lived around 2,000 years ago.. Further research has been carried out following the discovery of the ...

After being carefully excavated in November, the remains were radiocarbon dated around Christmas by Queen’s University Belfast. The estimate put him at around 2,300 years old.

But, Mallory, whose main expertise over his more than 40 years at Queen’s is in linguistic archaeology, suggests what became the Irish language dates back also to when those people, coming from ...