Halloween
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
We called them false faces and a Donegal Halloween has never felt the same since
Halloween began in Ireland and these are the places to spend October 31 this year
Samhain is coming! One of eight sacred days that shape the Celtic year
Most read
- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening