Irish folklore, like the island itself, is littered with tales of earth mounds known as fairy forts. The ancient ringforts date back to the Iron Age and have long been entwined with tales of the Aos ...

In the depths of Irish folklore lies the tale of Bridget Cleary. A young, healthy woman one day and a hallucinatory invalid the next, Cleary awakens to find her family, friends and fellow townspeople ...

Mainstream animation as we know it has always connected deeply to folklore and fairy tales. Disney’s early shorts and feature films adapted stories by the Brothers Grimm. Studio Ghibli drew ...

The Irish are a superstitious people, and Irish folklore is full of unspoken rules and precautions to keep humans safe from the Otherworld. If you or your family are from rural Ireland, you're likely ...

Every family has one, a fairy. You can probably think of one in your own family. The oddball, the one who marches to a different drum, is cut from a different cloth, who seems away with the … well ...

The time the Cork stuntman Tim Hayes wanted to be buried in a raheen in Monamolin - folklorist Michael Fortune presents a ...

“Song of the Sea” is newly available this week on Blu-ray and DVD as well as various streaming services. Six years ago, the ornately animated Irish indie “The Secret of Kells” conjured a dream of a ...

When the ladies equivalent of the Ryder Cup is held in Kileen Castle golf course in Dunsany, County Meath in September the world will get to see a unique Irish phenomenon, the fairty tree. Fairty ...