Ardal O’Hanlon explores a 1930s quest to find the first Irish men and women using archaeology, answering his deepest questions about what it means to be Irish.

What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

The evolution of skateboarding culture in Ireland since the late 1980s.

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...

The story of The Boomtown Rats, who fought a conservative Ireland, broke through the UK punk scene, ...
Through economic necessity, an Aran Islander is forced to travel to England to work on building site...

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has le...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrai...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, t...

‘Made in the Emerald Isle’ is a modern music documentary that addresses the ongoing struggles faced ...

In 1921, in the Danish town of Egtved, on the Jutland peninsula, was discovered one of the most impo...