More than 175 people in Ireland and abroad have come forward to inquire about providing samples to help identify babies ...
In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labeled "passage tombs" by archaeologists because they typically ...
I’ve often thought that us Irish have a morbid fascination with death. Perhaps this is why we do funerals so well. Nobody ...
The timing would give you pause for thought. When Storm Éowyn ripped through the ancient monastic site at the Lemanaghan bog in Offaly last year, it uprooted four mature trees, exposing a number of ...
Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured ...
International experts will join Irish counterparts to uncover an unmarked mass burial site for children at a former mother and baby home in Tuam in western Ireland, the director of the excavation team ...
Funeral directors nationwide are reporting a rise in ­cremations of about 5pc a year due to the costs of burials. Jane Clarke, spokesperson for the Irish Association of Funeral Directors, said their ...
Natural burial services are family directed, so the most important artists in a ceremony are the friends and family members of the deceased. They often bring to the service their own letters, poems, ...