Halloween
The Halloween loaf that starts with a mug of tea and a bowl of dried fruit
The Irish feast of the dead that Rome spent 500 years trying to stamp out
The Halloween games Irish girls once played to find out who they would marry
Halloween began in Ireland and the first jack o lanterns were carved from turnips
Ireland is quietly reclaiming Samhain as Halloween turns ever more commercial
The perfect Irish Halloween barmbrack recipe
Make it count, Monday is Ireland’s last bank holiday until Christmas
Say trick or treat as Gaeilge with 30 Irish words to use this Halloween
Ireland’s real ghost villages are far eerier than anything Halloween can conjure up
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