A 1,600-year-old pagan idol, made from a wooden pole carved from an oak tree, has been unearthed in a bog in western Ireland. Archaeologists say the idol dates to the very late stage of pagan Ireland, ...

On Heroes of the Gale: A History of Fionn and the Fianna, by Natasha Sumner. Natasha Sumner does not answer that question in her latest book, Heroes of the Gale: A History of Fionn and the Fianna. She ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ATHBOY, Ireland (Reuters) - Irish pagans gathered at an ancient sacred site on Wednesday night to mark the festival of Samhain - a ...

"Nothing kills her. Perhaps we can kill the human host..." Cineverse has unveiled the official US trailer for an Irish horror film titled The Morrigan, set for a VOD release starting February in the ...

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 ...

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 ...