Pagans carved it before Ireland converted to Christianity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 1,600-year-old pagan idol, made from ...

The Celtic festival of Samhain celebrates a time of year when the division between Earth and the otherworld collapses, allowing spirits to pass through. Matt Cardy/Getty Images The Irish often get ...

The Wheel of the Year is a medicine wheel marked and celebrated by most, indigenous cultures around the earth in their own ways. In Ireland, the ancient ones measured their cosmos in wheels, spirals, ...

Kindergarten students in 1952 race out of school in Los Angeles, eager to celebrate Halloween. Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images “It’s alive!” Dr. Frankenstein cried as his ...

A wooden pagan idol dating back to 100 years before St. Patrick was discovered by a team of archaeologists in County Roscommon, back in 2021. Believed to be more than 1,600 years old, the artifact was ...

A wooden idol that just predates St. Patrick’s arrival in Ireland more than 1,000 years ago has been unearthed from a bog that archaeologists think may have been a sacred ritual site. Researchers say ...

As autumn proves and Robert Frost reminds us, “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” In October, daylight wanes, fields empty and much of the Northern Hemisphere turns itself towards full blown memento mori. All of ...

TO Colonel Wood-Martin is due the credit of the first attempt to co-ordinate the vast stores of archæological lore which lie buried in the publications of the various Irish societies. The subject is a ...

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