Halloween
From "Dracula" to killer leprechauns, the Irish horror films to watch this Halloween
Willie the Wisp, the banshee and the Halloween Wexford still remembers
The bonfires and black cats the Irish used to keep the fairies away on Samhain
These homemade Halloween costumes from a century ago are scarier than anything today
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
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