Millions of people are already preparing to celebrate Halloween with all kinds of costumes, the vast majority of them inspired by current events. However, many of those taking part in this popular ...

Samhain was an ancient Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter, celebrated across Ireland, Scotland, and surrounding regions. It was seen as a threshold when the ...

ATHBOY, Ireland (Reuters) - Irish pagans gathered at an ancient sacred site on Wednesday night to mark the festival of Samhain - a precursor of Halloween - with bonfires and a procession to honor the ...

Halloween is an adaptation of a much, much older tradition called Samhain, a pagan festival that was held in the deep mid-winter of Celtic Ireland, at a time when the land lay barren and dormant. Our ...

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Because Halloween is just around the corner, I thought you needed to know the truth: Dracula is Irish! Now, I do realize this revelation might not be as shocking as finding out about the jolly old ...

“Mists of Time” by award-winning filmmaker Patrick Carey is now available to watch for free on the Irish Film Institute’s IFI Player. The Irish Film Institute (IFI) says that Mists of Time is a poetic ...

Forget tricks, it's all treats this October Bank Holiday, as Dublin Social and Great Irish Beverages are celebrating the coming of Samhain with a once off feast of Irish food, drink and music at Row ...