The name Líadan is rooted in ancient Celtic folklore and symbolizes wisdom, spirituality, and magical powers - but it was ...

Cats are theorized to be older than dogs, with their family tree branching off nearly 2.5 million years before canines. They ...

The streets of Wexford may be awash with April showers this week, but already attention is turning to autumn and one of the ...

Despite ominous links, owls are spectacular raptors which do much to help clean up our countryside by preying on rodents ...

The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from pascha —both Latin and Greek for Passover, the Jewish festival during which ...

A governmentally recognised stakeholder with respect to the Navan Fort Armagh has this week called for an update on a public consultation that was ...

Mayahuel, the single’s namesake, is a female deity of Aztec mythology. Within Mexican cultures of the pre-Columbian, Mesoamerican, Postclassic era of Central Mexico, the goddess Mayahuel was heavily ...

Many years after the fall of Troy, Queen Penelope (Juliette Binoche) faithfully awaits the return of her husband, Odysseus. Ithaca, her now benighted home, has been overrun with ambitious suitors ...

The Celtic myth says that Newgrange is a fairy mound or a sidh. A group of ancient people, the Tuatha Dé Danann, or “people of the goddess Danu,” dwelled there. Newgrange was built by the god ...

the Irish Goddess of War and Fertility, Birth and Death. According to Irish mythology, the cave is a portal to the Otherworld, and every Samhain, The Morrigan, keeper of the Otherword, leaves the ...

Credit: fhwrdh / CC BY 2.0 A new DNA study is challenging the long-standing myth that Ireland’s ancient passage tombs ... What is clear so far is that early Irish society was far more dynamic and ...