The Durotriges were a Celtic tribe that lived in present-day southern England prior to Roman conquest during the 1st century CE. Extensive archaeological excavations and DNA analysis indicate that the ...

Holiday traditions feel timeless, like they’ve always existed in their current form. Families gather around Christmas trees.

Before monsters haunted screens, they haunted the rivers and hills of Celtic lands. From the Cat-sìth, a ghostly black cat ...

The famine was caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, commonly known as late blight, which destroyed potato crops, the staple food for much of Ireland’s poor. This microorganism is very ...

This Halloween, as children dress as witches for trick-or-treating, a real witch in Wausau is celebrating the ancient Celtic festival that started it all.

Halloween's origins in ancient Celtic festivals and its integration with Christian holidays. Read how Costa Rica adapts the ...

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 ...

Halloween comes every year with treats, spookiness and costumes. But why do we celebrate it on Oct. 31? And what does Samhain ...

Halloween  We don’t know exactly where Halloween originated, but one of the earliest records of it dates back roughly 2,000 years to an ancient Celtic Festival called Samhain.  Samhain was celebrated ...

Halloween traces its origins back to the Iron Age and a feast of fire known as Samhain. Also included are the historical ...

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 ...