The male ruler of Ireland's fairy folk appears in many guises throughout folklore including the benevolent Finvarra and the diminutive Lubdan.

Ireland has no shortage of Christmas traditions, from holly-decked doorways to late-night singsongs and stories passed down ...

Ireland’s Neolithic passage tomb cemeteries combine mythology, astronomy, and monumental engineering. Focusing on sites such as Loughcrew, this explores folklore, solar and cross-quarter alignments, ...

SINCE the days when Castrén made his arduous journeys of linguistic exploration in Siberia, or when the brothers Grimm collected their rich treasures of folk-lore from the lips of German peasants, an ...

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 ...

From shamrocks to horseshoes - superstitions found in old Irish folklore that'll give you pause for thought. A look at the ...

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 ...