A small stone carved with the ancient Celtic script, Ogham, possibly dating back to the 4th century was discovered by a geography teacher in Coventry, England, while he was digging up a garden.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Celtic festival of Samhain celebrates a time of year when the division between Earth and the otherworld collapses, allowing ...

Beltane traditionally kicks off at sunset on April 30 and continues through the night into May 1, a day traditionally seen as the beginning of summer. It’s a celebration of the arrival of the lighter, ...

Bealtaine has arrived, offering a chance to contemplate Ireland's ancient history. As the Gaelic May Day festival, Bealtaine signals the start of summer and, alongside Samhain, Imbolc, and Lughnasadh, ...

Group of young friends dressed in costumes dancing and playing together at a Halloween party. One of their parents is playing alongside them, also dressed in a costume. This article originally ...

Archaeologists in France have uncovered five rare iron shackles at a 2,300-year-old Celtic site in Allonnes, indicating the ...

Abundance, feasting and celebration—the ancient Celtic festival of Lughnasa (pronounced Loo-nah-sah) marked the start of the harvest season and with it, the end of months deprivation. In modern Irish, ...

As for ancient bonfires, the Irish and Britons built them to celebrate Beltaine, but not Samhain—at least, not according to the medieval tales. In 19th-century Ireland, All Hallows Eve was a time for ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, ...