This Sol del Valle column has been translated for English readers. Every late October, when the cold begins to bite and the ...

Buy your tickets for the Chester River Chorale’s “A Celtic Christmas” concerts starting November 3! Tickets are expected to ...

The Durotriges were a Celtic tribe that lived in present-day southern England prior to Roman conquest during the 1st century ...

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

While many countries, especially those in Europe, have designated ‘national’ birds, Ireland does not. This is somewhat curious since one particular family of winged beauties, the Corvids (which ...

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 ...

The air is stuffy and hot as we slip through the door of this hut, a rush of chatter greeting us as we take our seats along a long wooden bench, not far from Silverstrand Beach, in Galway. We aren’t ...

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 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 ...