The best Irish Christmas videos that went viral: Fairytale of New York, the Charlie’s Bar ad, SuperValu’s 2020 grandad ad, An Post’s Tin Man, Celtic Thunder and the Toy Show.

Watch the Late Late Toy Show’s most magical moments: Adam King’s virtual hug, Michael meeting Davy Fitz and Sheamie charming Patrick Kielty, plus the story of the show.

Watch the Charlie’s Bar Christmas ad, the homemade video from an Enniskillen pub that moved six million viewers. The story behind it, the song and the man in it.

Watch the Gardiner Brothers, two Galway world champions and Riverdance stars, Irish dance in cowboy hats to Beyoncé’s Texas Hold ’Em. The video seen over 40 million times.

Watch Banjo Beat by Cairde, the Irish dancing video that went viral overnight and passed 80 million views, and meet the friends from Clare, Galway and Cork behind it.

Watch The Spark, the drum and bass rap by Cork and Clare children that hit 2 billion views, made the Grammy longlist and won Irish Song of the Year. The story behind it.

Watch the original Riverdance from the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest: the seven minutes that brought Dublin to its feet, the story behind it and how it changed Irish dancing.

Ten free RTÉ Archive clips and a 1934 travelogue showing how everyday Irish life changed from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Two hearts, a dot for each child and one unbroken line. Here’s what the Celtic motherhood knot means, how to show your children in it, and the honest story of where this modern design came from.

What the Celtic love knot and Serch Bythol mean, how old they really are, the documented love knots of Chaucer, sailors, Welsh lovespoons and Scottish brooches, and how to choose one for a wedding or anniversary.

The Celtic shield knot is sold as the Celtic symbol for protection. The four-cornered shape really is carved on early Irish and British stones, but the name and meaning are modern. Here’s the honest history, with sources.

The Dara knot is named after the Irish oak and stands for strength. The knotwork method is early medieval, but I found no Dara knot before the internet age. Here is the evidence, the oak’s real history, and how it compares to the shield and trinity knots.

Two hands, a heart and a crown. Here’s what the Claddagh ring means, which hand and which way to wear it, and the real Galway story behind it, with the legends marked as legends.

Thinking of spending Christmas in Ireland, or coming home for it? Here’s the season week by week, 2026 market dates checked with the organisers, what’s open on the 24th, 25th and 26th, pub laws north and south, transport, December weather and daylight, the Christmas Day swim and St Stephen’s Day racing.

On 26 December, masked figures in straw once knocked on Irish doors with a rhyme about a tiny bird. Here’s the story of Wren Day: how to say Lá an Dreoilín, the old hunt and today’s fake wren, the rhyme, the three legends, and where you can still see the wren boys parade.