Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

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The Irish language is not ‘nationalist culture’, it is much wider than that. It also has more than 2.000 years of unbroken ...

The free-to-use Irish Genealogy website has been updated to include even more Irish birth, marriage, and death records.

When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...

Fossil experts are inviting the public to join them in a citizen science project aimed at finding all the traces of ancient life in the country.

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Citizen scientists are encouraged to find and log fossils in urban and natural settings to create a national fossil map ...

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Hoads Wood was described as an ‘environmental disaster’ by local people after it was buried under landfill waste.