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

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

Celtic mythology stories are rich in folklore characters, including Irish mythological gods and goddesses. Here are some of these Irish gods explained. Here we take a look at some of the top Celtic ...

Kate Chadbourne, singer, storyteller, harper, poet and teacher, is set to release a new recording of songs that celebrate the eight major festivals of the Irish traditional year, as well as an ...

Soon it will be Saint Patrick’s Day, although Lowcountry celebrations have already been underway. Instead of the usual St. Paddy’s Day quiz, this week we’re taking a deep dive into the legends of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writer and director Aislinn Clarke, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, made a name for herself with her 2018 debut horror film The Devil’s Doorway. Her new movie Fréwaka, which had its world premiere ...

“I have worked in Ireland before and loved it, I worked in Dublin,” Fanning shared. “So going back was something I was very excited about and I loved that this story was incorporating that folklore ...

“Wolfwalkers” directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart didn’t conceive of the idea for their animated, Irish folklore parable until 2013 as they were finishing their previous film “Song of the Sea.” But ...