The best account we have is the Life of St. Patrick by a scholar named Muirchú. This hagiography–or biography of a saint–was ...

For many centuries, historians believed that St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, had spent his early years in Co Antrim, held captive by Irish raiders. Now, evidence points to a small village in ...

You do not have to travel very far in Ireland to stumble across ancient sites from various time periods in history. Ireland is dotted with these old structures that date from the Mesolithic Period ...