Lately, streaming platforms have been offering a good number of series set in Ireland. Some deal with the Northern Ireland conflict, while in others it's just a distant memory. This week sees the premiere of two new Irish-themed series of very different natures: one is a hilarious dark comedy set in the present day, while the other is a historical drama with the Northern Ireland conflict as its backdrop. In addition to these two fictional series, we'll review the other shows that transport us to the Emerald Isle and are currently available on streaming platforms.

"The custom of these savages is to live like beasts among the mountains, very steep in this part of Ireland where we were lost. They dwell in thatched huts. The men are stout, with graceful features and a fine build; agile as deer. They wear a cloak to cover themselves, and a linen sheet, fold upon fold, on their heads, tied in front," wrote Captain Francisco Cuéllar in October 1589, a year after surviving the shipwreck of the Spanish Armada, the fleet that Philip II sent to attack England.

The Republic of Ireland is at a historic turning point. Its long-standing tradition of military neutrality—dating back to 1921, at the end of the War of Independence against the British, and for decades considered an article of faith and a pillar of the country's modern identity—is weakening under the weight of the new global geopolitical reality. as a result of the Russian invasion of UkraineSome experts, such as Maeve Drury and Jason C. Moyer of the Atlantic Council, warn of "critical vulnerabilities" that have made Ireland a "weak spot" in Europe. Along with Austria and Malta, Ireland is one of the three European Union members that are not part of NATO. Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin and Defense Minister Simon Harris have proposed a series of drastic reforms in recent months, such as increasing defense spending to a record high, to address a threat that is no longer theoretical and that puts submarine infrastructure at risk. The current government has set a target of €1.5 billion upon taking office in 2028, €150 million more than the amount allocated in 2026. This figure, however, represents only 0.25% of GDP.

I've always enjoyed reading about the stories hidden in buildings. They're not just four walls; they're witnesses to history. Sipping a coffee or a good beer on a sunny day in Dublin, surrounded by smiling young people, it's hard to imagine that the city's beautiful post office burned down in 1916. Most Dubliners walk past the General Post Office every day without thinking about its past, but almost everyone knows that it was the headquarters of the rebels who led the Easter Rising.

Eleven years after local historian Catherine Corless revealed that 796 infants and children died between 1925 and 1961 at the Tuam Mother and Baby Institution in Galway, Ireland, the forensic excavation of the site formally began this Monday. The process, expected to last two years, aims to locate, exhume, analyze, and—if possible—identify the human remains buried at the site, as well as to dignify them with a new burial and a permanent memorial.

He Colmo Tóibín who in 1975, having just turned 20, arrived in Barcelona "which was emerging from the calamities of dictatorship and repression" could not imagine that, half a century later, he would be such a popular author in Catalonia, that he would be received with all the honors by the mayor of the city, Jaume Collboni, and that he would become He is one of the writers chosen to represent the Catalan capital at this fall's Guadalajara Book Fair..

"Believing in too many things can be bad for your health." "We can use the past to renew the present, not just to bury it." "Socialism is the culmination of democracy, not its negation." These three phrases are a tiny sample of the direct, revolutionary, and committed thinking of Terry Eagleton (Salford, 1943), one of the most influential university professors, literary critics, and essayists of the second half of the 20th century. Almost six decades after his debut with The New Left Church (Helicon, 1966) And after publishing around forty more books, the British author is no longer unpublished in Catalan thanks to Tigre de Paper, which has published Why Marx was right, translated by Lola Fígols Fornell. Published in English in 2011, the book prompted Eagleton's visit to Barcelona, ​​where he was one of the headliners at the Literal fair, held at the Fabra i Coats.