Insights

At the western edge of the Dingle Peninsula, the cemetery at Dún Chaoin looks across the Blasket Sound towards the islands that shaped the lives of its dead.…

St Patrick’s Cathedral holds history in many forms: medieval masonry, memorial tablets, stained glass, monuments, inscriptions and the worn surfaces of its…

Glasnevin Cemetery is one of Dublin’s most revealing historical landscapes. Its avenues, vaults, headstones and funerary monuments preserve the story of a…

Across Ireland, an early Christian gravestone can look modest at first glance: a weathered slab, a simple cross, or a fragment built into a church wall. Closer…

The burial grounds of County Waterford reveal a quieter side of Irish religious history. Among the most influential communities were the Religious Society of…

The story of the Children of Lir occupies a distinctive place in Irish cultural memory. Lir’s four children—Fionnuala, Aodh, Fiachra and Conn—are transformed…

The German War Cemetery at Glencree sits in a quiet valley in County Wicklow, where rows of dark iron crosses mark the resting places of hundreds of…

Among the weathered limestone memorials scattered through Irish churchyards, few motifs arrest the eye quite like the open hand raised in blessing. The hand of…

The cemetery at St. Mary’s in Youghal is a quiet but richly layered place, where medieval church history, local family memory and the visual language of Irish…

Tullyhogue Fort, near Cookstown in County Tyrone, is one of Ireland’s most evocative early historic sites. Its grass-covered banks and commanding position…