Ireland: Media
Videos
How many Americans have Irish ancestry?
Overview of the people of Ireland, with a focus on the impact of the mass emigration...
Learn about The Great Book of Ireland, a book containing hundreds of Irish poems, music compositions, and drawings produced between 1989 and 1991
The Great Book of Ireland is a manuscript book containing hundreds of Irish...
View a demonstration of early and medieval Irish foods possibly eaten by Saint Patrick and his contemporaries
A discussion of the foods that Saint Patrick and his contemporaries likely ate during...
Know the purpose for the creation of Irish titles of nobility between 1541, when Henry VIII of England made himself king of Ireland and during the reign of James I
A discussion of Irish titles of nobility between 1541, when Henry VIII of England...
Learn about the 15th earl of Desmond rebellion against the English crown and the formation of the Munster Plantation
A discussion of English colonization of the vast estates in Munster, Ireland, that...
The history of land ownership in post-Reformation Ireland
Demographic map demonstrating the shift of land ownership in Ireland from Catholic...
Why has Dante's Inferno been important to Irish writers and artists?
Learn about the importance of Dante's Inferno to Irish writers and artists.
Tour Ireland's countryside and learn why the country's population decreased after the Industrial Revolution
A brief overview of rural Ireland, its fields of heather and abandoned villages.
Watch Irish sheep herders at work and learn why most of the country's agricultural land is used as pasture
The importance of sheep herding to the economy of Ireland
caring for hospitalized dementia patients in Ireland
A doctor's observations of care of hospitalized dementia patients in Ireland.
Images
Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland
The Cliffs of Moher on the coast of County Clare, Ireland, just south of Galway Bay.
© Tom Till Photography
Ireland
Map showing Ireland's location relative to Europe and the United Kingdom.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.
© Digital Vision/Getty Images
Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
The Cathedral of St. Colman and the harbour of Cork city at Cobh, County Cork, Ireland.
© Susanne Neumann—iStock/Getty Images
Long Room, Old Library, Trinity College Dublin
The Long Room in the Old Library, Trinity College Dublin.
Universal Images Group North America LLC—DeAgostini/Alamy
Neolithic burial mound, Newgrange, County Meath, Leinster, Ireland
Neolithic burial mound, Newgrange, County Meath, Leinster, Ireland.
Brian Morrison/Tourism Ireland
William III at the Battle of the Boyne
King William III of England leading his forces to victory over the former king James...
Photos.com/Jupiterimages
Henry Flood
Henry Flood, engraving by James Heath from a drawing by J. Comerford, published 1811.
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
Population changes in Ireland from 1841 to 1851 as a result of the Great Famine
Map depicting population changes in Ireland from 1841 to 1851 as a result of the...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Irish emigration from the Great Famine
Irish emigrants fleeing Ireland because of the Irish Potato Famine.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
William Thomas Cosgrave
William Thomas Cosgrave.
George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35309)
British Isles terminology
Map showing the terminology commonly used to describe the British Isles, the United...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Audio
Interactives
Bloomsday map of Dublin, Ireland
An interactive map of James Joyce's Dublin from June 16, 1904, the date on which...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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