The ancient Irish belief in the droch shúil — the evil eye — explains why grandmothers say ‘God bless’ when admiring a baby. Discover Ireland’s oldest living folk tradition.
The Caves of Kesh sit open on the limestone face of Keshcorran Hill in County Sligo, visible for miles across the plain below. They’ve been …
The Skellig List was one of Ireland’s wittiest folk traditions — a public naming of every unmarried person who missed the Shrove Tuesday marriage deadline. The story behind the rock that gave desperate singles a second chance.
Piseógs were Ireland’s ancient folk curses. Discover what happened when a neighbour’s envy became something darker, and why rural families still treated suspicious objects with fire.
The leannán sídhe is the Irish fairy said to grant genius to poets and musicians — while quietly consuming their lives. A haunting legend still whispered in Ireland.
The banshee belongs to specific ancient Irish families — not everyone. Here’s who she follows, what she sounds like, and what hearing her really means.
Discover the Dagda, Ireland’s forgotten father god — his inexhaustible cauldron, death-defying club, and the ancient sites where his legend still lives.
Piseógs — the ancient Irish practice of placing deliberate curses on a neighbour’s land — were once one of rural Ireland’s darkest secrets. Here’s what farmers feared finding at dawn.
Discover the Irish merrow legend — the sea creature from Irish folklore who lived between two worlds, loved human men, and always returned to the waves in the end.
Discover the stray sod — the enchanted Irish ground that could make any farmer lose their way in a field they’d walked a thousand times.