Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Randee Dawn shares how a book of folk tales by W.B. Yeats was a "lightbulb moment" for her, and helped her ill grandfather DFlux Photography, LLC; CAEZIK SF & ...
The Irish Cultural Center of the Mohawk Valley will host tales and songs celebrating Ireland’s Samhain or Halloween tradition ...
Even modern-day Halloween traditions, like wearing costumes and carving pumpkins, come from ancient Samhain practices.
“The Irish are known for being natural-born storytellers, from our rich folklore to our ability to retell a tale and make everyone in the room feel like they were there with us.” Since I started to ...
New national research uncovers how Ireland’s fairies, banshees and ghosts still haunt daily life - and names Kilkenny as the ...
The Banshee, or Bean Sídhe (her legend recently imbued by the popular film "The Banshees of Inisherin") is that female spirit of Irish folklore who heralds death by screaming, wailing, or shrieking.
You may know of the connection between Halloween and Samhain (pronounced "SOW-en"), the 2,000-year-old Irish festival marking the end of the Fall ...
University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Today, while we hear a fair bit from ...
It was the 1990s, and Pop-Pop was dying. Pop-Pop was my grandfather, wrestling with late-stage diabetes, and he didn't have long to live. This news hit me hard; I'd appointed him years earlier as the ...