A wooden idol that just predates St. Patrick's arrival in Ireland more than 1,000 years ago has been unearthed from a bog that archaeologists think may have been a sacred ritual site. Researchers say ...

A wooden pagan idol dating back to 100 years before St. Patrick was discovered by a team of archaeologists in County Roscommon, back in 2021. Believed to be more than 1,600 years old, the artifact was ...

Devotees of St. Brigid are commemorating the 1,500th anniversary of her death on Thursday, the feast day of the so-called matron saint of Ireland, who's been gaining a modern following. Many of the ...

PROF. MACALISTER'S “Tara” is a study in archæology and traditional history combined such as would be possible nowhere but in Ireland. He takes his readers over the ground of this famous centre of ...

TO Colonel Wood-Martin is due the credit of the first attempt to co-ordinate the vast stores of archæological lore which lie buried in the publications of the various Irish societies. The subject is a ...

(RNS) — One of the eight sabbats, or modern pagan holidays, Beltane is a celebration of community after the colder months and of the returning fertility of the land. (RNS) — “Love, whose month is ever ...

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WHEN KING CHARLES III put a picture of a Green Man on the invitations to his coronation in May, there was much discussion of what the leafy-faced symbol might signify. Was Britain’s new monarch ...

An image of what could be Stonehenge appears inside the back cover of the booklet coming with Sumer Is Icumen In – The Pagan Sound Of British & Irish Folk 1966–1975. Inside its front cover, a similar ...

The Education Minister has referred to an Alliance MLA’s apparent refusal to rule out “witchcraft and paganism” being taught in schools here as “no laughing matter.” ...