
Tag: Ireland
20 Posts


Ireland’s Alcatraz: Spike Island was once “Hell on Earth.”

David Lawlor’s The Best Streets in the World.

Historic Photo: Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland, about 1900.

Announcing “Second Decade” history podcast, Episode 3: The Last Frost Fair.

Metal for Friday: Riot “Liberty” [audio].

Interiors: Sean’s Bar, Athlone, Ireland, the oldest pub in Europe.

Earth: Wreck of the MV Plassey, Inisheer Island, Ireland.

Earth Tour: Three medieval battle sites in (less than) two minutes. [video]

The long reach of war: the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

Earth, Haunted Places, History
Earth: Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, where something tragic once happened.

Skuldelev 3: Viking merchant shipping in the 11th Century

The vanished emerald city: the Dublin of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.”

An Gorta Mór (the Great Famine): the manmade environmental disaster that changed the world.
