Planning your year around Ireland’s cherished bank holidays? Here's everything you need to know about Ireland's Bank Holidays for 2025 their history and how they're celebrated today.

These ancient Irish genomes each show unequivocal evidence for massive migration. The early farmer has a majority ancestry ...

The origins of the Fairy King in old Celtic lore. Stories of fairies are prominent in Irish folklore, and the belief in a fairy hierarchy, or fairy royalty, has been a popular notion for centuries.

Speak to any Belfast native about poitín — an ancient, potent, and notoriously illegal Irish spirit — and you’ll hear tales of drinkers going blind, suffering memory loss, or waking up in ...

“I was drunk from the feet up,” said Colm Oates, laughing. We were sitting in the corner of his Belfast pub, The Garrick, as he recalled his first taste of poitín. “I tried to stand, but my ...

In the northeast, getting outdoors is easy to do, with coastlines, forests, hill walks, historic sites, adventure centres, ...

Elsewhere, you can read all about the 22nd BCMFest (Boston Celtic Music Fest), which takes place at several locations Jan. 16-19, but here are some other upcoming ...

A scholarly work that seeks to deepen our understanding of Irish monasticism and its influence on church traditions ...

Surrounded by the castle’s storied walls, I felt the weight of history blend seamlessly with the warmth of Irish hospitality.

Connecting this fact with the existence of sixty locations between Britain and the Black Sea identified as Mediolanum – a Latin–Celtic conflation loosely meaning ‘sanctuary in ... I began to see, as ...

The final resting place of the cup of Christ is the ‘holy grail’ of religious tourism. But hundreds of sites claiming to be ...