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The dry weather has revealed previously undiscovered site around the county.
The government launched its Global Ireland plan today.
Author John Connell agrees with President Higgins that making the study of History optional at junior cycle is to lose a part of our national identity.
The move is as part of the Ireland 2040 plan.
The penitential trail paths aren’t just for those who are religious.
The State conservation group had suggested the houses be made protected structures, but an order to demolish them to build housing for senior citizens had already been made.
Irish uilleann piping was granted the same status last year.
A group of workers posted a video on Facebook purporting to have found something at the ancient site.
The invasive plant is at the centre of a row between a voluntary body and a government department.
President Michael D Higgins is among those to welcome the news
Over 500 people were killed when the boat sank, just a month before the First World War ended.
George Victor du Noyer travelled around Ireland drawing various features, accompanied by his spaniel Mr Buff.
#IamIrish exhibition opens this month to explore issues around identity and culture with Irish people of mixed heritage.
Of the 36 people who died in the bombings, only four bodies were found.
The public is being asked to help at archaeological dig at Glendalough.
Heritage Week kicks off today, and a talk in Kilkenny on the abandoned medieval village of Rindoon is just one great example of what’s on.
The Green Flag Awards recognise parks that are managed in environmentally sustainable ways.
Dozens of heritage sites across the country are giving children under 12 free admission.
The initiative will apply to all paid-admission sites operated by the OPW from this Saturday.
“I think even born city-dwellers have almost unconscious muscle memory of life in rural Ireland. We all share it,” according to designer Deirdre Duffy.
An award-winning Roscommon heritage hero tells us what heritage sites we should visit this weekend.
This Easter, National Pilgrim Paths Week will take place.
Matt Farrell from Co Longford was named Ireland’s Heritage Hero at an awards ceremony this week.
The English Market, a fresh food venue and meeting place, is over 200 years old.
If your local authority decides your house or business is a protected structure, what actually happens?
14 Henrietta Street will showcase the long and pockmarked history of Dublin’s tenements.
The letter was added to the Register of Cultural Objects last Friday evening, which will delay the sale for a year.
It’s owner says he longer feels an obligation to keep it here.
Gerry Adams has called it a “quite frankly bizarre decision”.
The Public Holidays Bill 2016 is being brought before the Dáil today by Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh.
TheJournal.ie was invited to explore the first archaeological dig into a passage tomb on Montpelier Hill. How could we resist?
Several sites around Ireland are being ‘adopted’ by their local communities.
Amateur and professional photographers must submit their photos before next Friday to be in with a chance of winning the cash prize.
We’ve got a great round-up of events taking place around the country.
The US presidential hopeful wants to build a €10 million rock barrier to protect his county Clare golf course.
People are calling for a minimum spend.
The ultimate question in all of this is, ‘what we value more as a society’. We can always build more shopping centres or hotels in different city centre sites, but we can never rebuild our history once destroyed, writes Sean Fox.
A team from Ireland and England are trying their hand – with impressive results.
This week the terrorist group destroyed a 2,000 year old temple — but it’s not its first time.
A ring fort will be demolished during the second phase of construction.