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The link is through Andrew Jamieson Walker, born in Scotland in 1873, who spent much of his boyhood in Kilcadden House and its 300-acre estate near Stranorlar, County Donegal after his Irish father William Walker and Scottish mother Margaret Ferguson Cuth…

As part of the wrap-up for our exhibition of Old Ireland in Colour images at Kylemore Abbey last weekend, I gave a presentation with 26 stories of innovators and innovations from along our westerly seaboard.

Last evening in Galway, I was meeting with my friend Kevin O’Hara, also known as the Donkeyman after his book “Last of the Donkey Pilgrims” which describes his travels around the coast of Ireland in 1979 with Missie the donkey.

San chéad alt, scríobh mé faoi cad é an blockchain go díreach, agus cén fáth go bhfuil sé tábhachtach.

Déanaim féin taighde leis na hIonaid VistaMilk agus Insight in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe: is ionaid taighde iad a bhunaigh Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland le blianta anuas.

Photo by John Breslin (Public Domain) So you want to get started with building your Irish family tree?

Famed soldier in the United Irishmen Miles Byrne refers in his Memoirs to a tract of wetlands bought by a Mrs Doyle Lawless near Carcassonne.

Archbishop Arthur Richard Dillon, General Arthur Dillon, Marquise Henriette-Lucie Dillon, and the death of General Theobald Dillon Part of the Irish Brigade, Dillon’s Regiment was brought from Ireland to France in 1690 by Count Arthur Dillon (1670-1733) d…

Did you know that over 260 years ago, Caserne Laperrine, the large military barracks beside Les Jacobins and originally built from 1709 to 1735, was once host to a battalion of Irish soldiers, part of Dillon’s Regiment from 1763 to 1764?

Carcassonne has neolithic origins, but likely owes its original oppidum (town) name of Carsac (later Carcaso) to the Gauls, a Celtic people.