Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Randee Dawn shares how a book of folk tales by W.B. Yeats was a "lightbulb moment" for her, and helped her ill grandfather DFlux Photography, LLC; CAEZIK SF ...

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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 ...

Irish folklore records recount many tales of malevolent fairy activity directed towards those who damaged or interfered with a hawthorn tree, and mysterious disappearances of those who wandered ...

In his collection of Irish fairy and folk tales, W.B. Yeats offered an 18th-century poem by William Allingham titled "The Lepracaun; Or, Fairy Shoemaker." It describes the tapping sound of the ...

Ireland’s fairy forts are, at the same time, an enigma and a firm fact of life. You can find them everywhere. If you don’t ...

Welcome to an exploration of Ireland’s intriguing fairy forts—a phenomenon deeply embedded in Irish folklore and tradition. These ancient remnants hold secrets and tales passed down through ...

"Where I'm from, we don't really have hills, so when I saw Northern Ireland, it was like a fairy tale setting for my art." Thomas Dambo, one of the world's leading recycle artists, has built four ...

Alas, there was nothing of note in the school library's folklore section about Jewish folk tales. But next to the "J" section was the "I" section – and my fingers landed on Irish Fairy and Folk ...