From the mythology of Gráinne and Diarmuid to the poetry of Yeats and the songs of Van the Man, Ireland has long celebrated ...

While pirates are often thought of as male, numerous women are still remembered as some of the greatest pirates of their time. But what about the ‘pirate queen’? In the world of pirating, there was no ...

Don't miss this first look at a new opera intercutting the life stories of an eighteenth-century Irish pirate who was sentenced ... the 2017 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the 2018 Seamus ...

ON the BBC’s brilliant World War Two TV blockbuster SAS Rogue Heroes, Lt Col Paddy Mayne is ­portrayed as a foul-mouthed, ...

Kildare’s celebration of St Brigid takes place over the bank holiday weekend and beyond, and will commemorate St Brigid through the theme Her Spirit, Our Story. The programme includes several special ...

The Irish version of the county is Mhaigh Eo which ... The yew tree is one of the few evergreen trees native to Ireland. ­ The Pirate Queen Grace O’Malley (c. 1530 – c. 1603) was of the ...

Omagh-born singer Dominic Kirwan can clearly recall August 15, 1998 – the day a Real IRA bomb killed 29 people in his ...

Daniel Craig will always be loved as 007, but his critically acclaimed non-Bond movies show the true range of the actor. Here is a list.

Daniel Craig will always be loved as 007, but his critically acclaimed non-Bond movies show the true range of the actor. Here is a list.

Westport in Irish is Cathair na Mart ... on the site of the original Ó’Máille Castle – home of the pirate queen Grace O’Malley (Gráinne Uaile). The house and its parklands are open ...

He also gave the voice and performed the motion capture for Sakharine’s ancestor, the pirate Red Rackham. Synopsis: Following ...

Revolving around two career criminals and a Thameside mansion, The Burial Plot is a gripping historical thriller about murder ...