Round towers were designed primarily as bell-towers and were attached to some of the most prestigious churches in Ireland during the 11th and 12th centuries. In thickly forested and remote landscapes ...

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers.

Since the 12th century, Ireland had been a colony of Great Britain. Like the American Colonists who rebelled against the British crown, a group of rebels called the United Irish launched an ...

Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Simon Harris has admitted that Ireland ... century needs in terms of defence.” Thirty-five members of the 100th cadet class and the 29 members of the 12th ...

For centuries, the Anglo-Saxons worked systematically to conquer and dominate Ireland. Beginning in the late 12th century and intensifying under the Tudors and Stuarts in the 16th and 17th ...

Claims Judgement Day will fall in 2027 have been based on the writings of Saint Malachy, an Irish bishop from the 12th century who wrote a series of prophecies about the sequence of popes.

Since the 12th century, Ireland had been a colony of Great Britain. Like the American Colonists who rebelled against the British crown, a group of rebels called the United Irish launched an ...

Out with the old, in with the new Since the 12th century, Ireland had been a colony of Great Britain. Like the American Colonists who rebelled against the British crown, a group of rebels called ...