Once in a while, a new Irish book comes along that just stops you in your tracks. This month Mark Joyce's superbly illustrated new book "Mythical Irish Beasts" is that book. It's a work of near magic, ...

Ancient Irish burial mounds reveal both history and folklore, spirits guarding the dead, rituals tied to the solstice, and ...

In the 14th century, maps of Ireland began showing an island lurking off the west coast. They called it Hy-Brasil. Connected with the Irish belief in Tír na nÓg — the “otherworld” or “land of eternal ...

Reveling in the sunlight of the long awaited Irish spring, our man in Clare recalls the seven messengers that herald the end of winter. Many of you who were born in Ireland know all about the mythical ...

Ireland is brimming with rich cultural history, some of it mingled with Celtic mythology. The land has inspired some remarkable tales of bravery, struggle, and triumph. The myths, legends, and ...

The key to recovering from traumatic nerve injuries, like those sustained in motor vehicle accidents or gunshot wounds, may be a gene named for the land of everlasting youth in Irish folklore. In a ...

Beginning with a haunting recital of W.B. Yeats "The Stolen Child," Esme Sammons’s original play of the same name brought the audience to a land of faeries, selkies, banshees and sometimes something ...

The Whooper Swan brings life to the desolate valleys of Mayo in winter. In the heart of winter one particular creature brings life to the desolate valleys in Mayo – the Whooper Swan. Travelling all ...

Ireland starting to look like a small nation with a swollen head Cartoon by Tom Halliday A sudden ­avalanche of political noise is tumbling out the doors of ­Ireland’s fortress of ­restrained ...

Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500, but for centuries before that any decent mapmaker knew where Brazil was. It was an island a hundred or so miles west of Ireland… and this cartographic phantom ...