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Full of humour and laughter, you’ll enjoy this great collection of stories by Joe Ó Dónaill, funny stories he collected over the years. They’ll lift your heart even on the gloomiest of days. They say laughter is the best medicine, and here’s a good dose full of mirth and devilment.

Experience the beauty, mystery and adventure of Ireland's most enjoyable hikes, vetted for child suitability and fun, along with useful tips and advice for parents (and guardians, grandparents, aunts and uncles). The perfect motivation to get the whole family out on a fun-filled adventure!

youngest Kinnego kids are outside, laughing an playing under the wide open sky, but when Katie gets a bit too rough with her wee brother Ownie, the fun comes to a sudden stop. Left alone to think about her actions, Katie starts to feel a heavy tug in her heart. Can she find the courage to admit ...

Rebecca S. Miller tells the story of how these working-class bands brought new sounds and choreographies to the Irish and Northern Irish pop landscape. Both as a response to and an agent in Ireland's changing economic landscape, showbands quickly grew into a hugely lucrative commercial industry. ...

Could you ever have imagined that a circuitous trip around Inishowen one day would end up as a magical mystery tour? Giraffes, hairy buffaloes, monkeys, ghouls, scary Manus the Rib…even thieving cats? Maeve and Seoirse have enlivened this rhyming journey of fun through the beautiful towns and vil...

The re-conquest of Ireland in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries smashed the old social order of lordship and tribal property and erected on its ruins a social structure of peasants and landlords. From the 1760s, the Irish peasantry developed a uniquely vigorous and continuous tradition of ...

This historical atlas explores the town of Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal from its origins to the present day. It traces the town's development from a fording point and O'Donnell stronghold, through its nineteenth-century heyday as a thriving port and market town with international trading connections...

In July 2014, Joe McHugh TD faced one of the most significant challenges of his political career. Appointed Minister for Natural Resources, the Gaeltacht and the Islands, McHugh was tasked with promoting the Irish language, despite having a limited grasp of the language himself. The outcry from t...

From Yeats to Joyce, Moore to Gregory, Wilde to Carbery to Synge, the Irish poets have come closer than anyone else to expressing 'the deep that was you and I'. Let their masterful words guide you through the longing of love unanswered, the joy of love won, and the grief of love that is no more.