Originating in Scotland, it was modified by Irish singer Francis McPeake and later sung by artists such as Bob Dylan and Judy Collins ...

From the black dog of Hanging Hill to the Little People's Village, these Connecticut legends have ties to Celtic myths.

When the Irish talk about fairy forts, they’re referring to the remains of stones set out in a circular arrangement and ...

My grandparents emigrated from Counties Sligo, Limerick, and Cork. Fittingly, the first book I took out of the children’s ...

Someone walking by you on the street drops a ring out of their pocket, and it looks very valuable. Before you can pick it up, ...

On an emerald green background, the swirling trefoils intertwine amid the golden hues and floral motifs of traditional batik.

Formed in London’s King’s Cross in 1982, The Pogues were originally named Pogue Mahone – an Anglicisation of the Irish phrase ...

W.B. Yeats mused in 1888’s Fairy Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. “Hardly two Irish writers are agreed. In many things these three fairies, if three, resemble each other. They are withered ...

The Irish folk scene has long been a platform for the voiceless ... a deep understanding. And, you know, funny stories — a bit of craic, some tunes.” In her own work, Casey has combined elements of ...

The theme of this year’s parade and party is “the spirit of Kells,” referring to the famous medieval illuminated manuscript, Irish folk tales, legends and mythology, as well as Irish ...

We are on Wexford Time, as I call it – slipping into a different dimension of historic awareness in a landscape so textured, ...

“When I brought Irish folk tales into my creative writing workshop here at BC, the students found something inspiring about them; one student said, ‘I couldn’t stop writing!’ In folk tales and fairy ...