According to the knowledge we have at the moment, it is believed that the ancient Irish had four major festivals, as well as a number of smaller festivals. When Christianity came to Ireland around ...

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Samhain, the Celtic New Year, is our favorite holiday. Back when I taught Irish language classes, I would challenge my ...

For millennia, couples have had to decide where to live. "For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, "societies were centered around ties of ...

AN ANCIENT sword engraved with swastikas and forged long before Jesus walked the Earth has been discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis. Uncovered intact in France after 2,300 years, the sword was ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Poland has shed new light on ancient Celtic medical practices. Archaeologists unearthed a rare, 2,300-year-old iron tool likely used for cranial surgery. Found at the ...