For ten days this November, Bray becomes Ireland’s capital of the spoken word as the Yarn Storytelling Festival returns to the Mermaid Arts Centre and venues across Wicklow. Now in its 16th year, Yarn ...

Propelled by anti-establishment fervor, Catherine Connolly was elected last week with a landmark popular mandate.

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The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

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Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light ...

Hundreds of millions of people around the world celebrate Halloween, but only one place can lay claim to its origins. In fact ...

Known as The Orchard County, Armagh’s gently rolling hills are stitched with over 6,000 acres of Bramley apple trees. In autumn, the county bursts into harvest celebration, culminating in the Armagh ...

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DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

The very first Halloween celebrations trace back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which later morphed into All Hallow's Eve in the Roman Catholic Church.