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Happy New Year! Looking back on the remarkable ...
As we prepare to ring in the New Year and welcome 2025, I thought I might take this opportunity to recall some of the highlights of the year that has...
Happy New Year! Looking back on the remarkable ...
As we prepare to ring in the New Year and welcome 2025, I thought I might take this opportunity to recall some of the highlights of the year that has...

Cormac Mac Art - the greatest of the High Kings...
There are estimated to have been almost 150 high kings of Tara, the seat of royal power in Ireland for centuries, spanning from prehistory into early historic and medieval times....
Cormac Mac Art - the greatest of the High Kings...
There are estimated to have been almost 150 high kings of Tara, the seat of royal power in Ireland for centuries, spanning from prehistory into early historic and medieval times....

Strange tracks revealed by storm in ancient bog...
Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland describes strange parallel ruts or grooves discovered by a local man in a probable ancient bog revealed by shifting sands after a recent storm at...
Strange tracks revealed by storm in ancient bog...
Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland describes strange parallel ruts or grooves discovered by a local man in a probable ancient bog revealed by shifting sands after a recent storm at...

A biographical tribute to an Irish archaeologis...
Brenda McMahon, daughter of the late P.J. Hartnett, the archaeologist who excavated the Fourknocks passage-tombs in the early 1950s, pens a biographical tribute to her father.
A biographical tribute to an Irish archaeologis...
Brenda McMahon, daughter of the late P.J. Hartnett, the archaeologist who excavated the Fourknocks passage-tombs in the early 1950s, pens a biographical tribute to her father.

Fascinating new revelations show that 90% of th...
Fascinating new revelations about the people buried at Fourknocks over 5,000 years ago include the fact that 90% of them were cremated, and two adult males had received but recovered...
Fascinating new revelations show that 90% of th...
Fascinating new revelations about the people buried at Fourknocks over 5,000 years ago include the fact that 90% of them were cremated, and two adult males had received but recovered...

Tribute: Jack Roberts – a true pioneer of Irish...
Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland pays tribute to his late friend, the author and megalithic astronomy pioneer Jack Roberts, who passed away in June 2024.
Tribute: Jack Roberts – a true pioneer of Irish...
Anthony Murphy of Mythical Ireland pays tribute to his late friend, the author and megalithic astronomy pioneer Jack Roberts, who passed away in June 2024.
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