Blood sacrifices involving pigs, sheep or geese were practiced in Ireland well into living memory on Martinmas ...

How the feast of St Martin, or Martinmas, on November 11 fused Christian legend with rural seasonal rites that once shaped ...

Even modern-day Halloween traditions, like wearing costumes and carving pumpkins, come from ancient Samhain practices.

Cathie Ryan gets into a song by closing her eyes. That way, the famous Irish-American singer said Friday, her lyrics are about the subject of the song and not about her. “It’s a way of going inside to ...

Rooted in Ireland’s rich tapestry of folklore, mythology and oral storytelling, Irish horror is having a moment, with eerie ...

The Unreal screenwriter Rodney Lee tells us how one Irish legend, the Fetch, inspired him as he sat down to create Season 2 of the family ghost story - Sundays at 5.10pm on RTÉ One and streaming now ...

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The writer-director, who debuted the film at Locarno, also discusses using the Irish language and her "rage against the historical treatment of women in Ireland." By Georg Szalai Global Business ...