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 🏔️The Ringforts of Ireland – What They Actually Were
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Jun 2, 2026

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🏔️The Ringforts of Ireland – What They Actually Were

Thousands still remain across the landscape

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📚 Hedge Schools - Education Outside the System

May 28, 2026

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📚 Hedge Schools - Education Outside the System

When formal education was restricted, learning did not stop. It moved outside the system

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⚖️ The Penal Laws - How Control Was Applied
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May 26, 2026

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⚖️ The Penal Laws - How Control Was Applied

📜 How a system of restrictions reshaped land, faith, education, and daily life across generations in Ireland.

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☘️From Famine Ships to Global Stages

May 18, 2026

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☘️From Famine Ships to Global Stages

Irish migration, music, cinema, and the lives that shaped two continents.

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 🌿The Burren - A Landscape That Shouldn’t Work

May 14, 2026

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🌿The Burren - A Landscape That Shouldn’t Work

Life in the most unexpected places

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Brehon Law: How Early Ireland Governed Itself
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May 12, 2026

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Brehon Law: How Early Ireland Governed Itself

A legal system built on kinship, status, and restitution

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The 9,000-Year Lease That Changed Ireland

May 11, 2026

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The 9,000-Year Lease That Changed Ireland

Plus: Seamus Heaney on hope, Clannad’s Donegal legacy, and the Mayo cottage Grace Kelly never forgot.

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The Claddagh Ring: A Story Forged in Galway
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May 5, 2026

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The Claddagh Ring: A Story Forged in Galway

From a single design to a symbol carried across generations

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Bealtaine: When Summer Began in Ireland

May 4, 2026

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Bealtaine: When Summer Began in Ireland

A turning point shaped by fire, land, and survival

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🪨Round Towers: Not Quite What They Seem

Apr 30, 2026

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🪨Round Towers: Not Quite What They Seem

Beyond their role as watchtowers

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Irish Roots Weekly: Easter 1916 - The Week That Changed Ireland

Apr 26, 2026

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Irish Roots Weekly: Easter 1916 - The Week That Changed Ireland

The Proclamation, Pearse, the GPO, and the women who sustained the Rising.

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Irish Roots Weekly: Ireland in Voice, Verse, and Symbol

Mar 30, 2026

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Irish Roots Weekly: Ireland in Voice, Verse, and Symbol

From song and poetry to harp and city streets

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Mothers of Ireland - and the Roots We Carry

Mar 15, 2026

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Mothers of Ireland - and the Roots We Carry

From the quiet strength of Irish mothers to the worldwide celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day.

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Irish Roots Weekly

Irish Roots Weekly

Mar 1, 2026

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Irish Roots Weekly

Symbols, Stories, and Quiet Endurance

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How Ireland Remembers Love

Feb 15, 2026

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How Ireland Remembers Love

Symbols, stories, and names carried across centuries and generations

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Irish Roots Weekly

Feb 8, 2026

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8 min read

Irish Roots Weekly

From Revolution to Hearth: Five Irish Stories

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Irish Roots Weekly:🌿St Brigid, Imbolc, and the Quiet Work of Continuity.

Feb 1, 2026

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Irish Roots Weekly:🌿St Brigid, Imbolc, and the Quiet Work of Continuity.

How a winter threshold became a household season of readiness.

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Irish Roots Weekly

Jan 25, 2026

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Irish Roots Weekly

A weekly selection from across Irish life and memory

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Irish Roots Weekly

Jan 18, 2026

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Irish Roots Weekly

History, work, memory, and words kept carefully

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What Endures

Jan 4, 2026

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What Endures

Small places, shared memory, and the quiet ways Ireland travels with its people.

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Irish Roots Weekly

Happy New Year to You

Dec 31, 2025

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Happy New Year to You

As 2025 comes to a close, we want to begin simply by wishing you a Happy New Year.

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Irish Roots Weekly: After Christmas, the Quieter Days

Dec 28, 2025

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Irish Roots Weekly: After Christmas, the Quieter Days

St Stephen’s Day, the Wren Boys, winter darkness, and places that have stayed much the same.

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From Ireland, at Christmas

Dec 25, 2025

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From Ireland, at Christmas

A season of welcome, memory, and thanks

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Irish Music

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Fairytale of New York
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Dec 22, 2025

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Fairytale of New York

How a song about distance, memory, and regret came to define Christmas

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Irish Roots Weekly

Dec 21, 2025

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Irish Roots Weekly

Stories of Christmas, winter, and connection

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