Paul Durcan, an Irish poet whose droll, sardonic and frequently tender poems about lads in dimly lit pubs, quotidian life in the countryside and the trauma of political violence made him one of ...

According to a 2017 piece from The Irish Times, Healy-Rae said: “There are numerous fairy forts in that area. I know that they are linked.

Eva Osborne Irish folklore, like the island itself, is littered with tales of earth mounds known as fairy forts. The ancient ringforts date back to the Iron Age and have long been entwined with tales ...

Like many of Ireland's mythological creatures, including the banshee (meaning 'woman of the fairy mound' or 'fairy woman'), many stories of fairy forts have been passed down through generations of ...

Like many of Ireland's mythological creatures, including the banshee (meaning 'woman of the fairy mound' or 'fairy woman'), many stories of fairy forts have been passed down through generations of ...

I didn't know I had Irish ancestry when I started The Only Song Worth Singing, or when Yeats’ book gave me and my grandfather solace in his dying days. But like the cry of the banshee, it called ...

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It’s unlikely as Irish country people were well acquainted with such sounds. Unlike many other regional-specific customs in Ireland the banshee belief was widely held across the country.

The bean-sidhe (evolved to Bean Sí, literally meaning fairy woman, and then anglicized to Banshee) is a fairy who may have been an ancestral spirit appointed to warn members of certain ancient ...