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Wexford faces and voices featured in the third episode of the RTÉ series Na Féilte Tine over the May bank holiday weekend.

Samhain marked New Year’s Day and fell around November 1 in the modern calendar. On the eve of each new year, the Celts believed, the barrier between the living and the dead became porous ...

While Bealtaine may have had fewer foods associated with it than other festivals, milk, butter and eggs did feature highly ...

Many pagan Celtic traditions from medieval times were incorporated into Marian veneration, the most notable of which was the collection of flowers. Flowers were used to decorate grottoes, altars and ...

Historically, Samhain marked the end of harvest and the ... Families gather for festive meals, gift exchanges, and midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. St. Stephen’s Day, also known as Wren Day ...

Halloween is also known by numerous other names, such as Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints Eve, and Samhain (which is pronounced sow-in). Halloween’s origins lie far back in the ancient past.

After the Celtic lands gradually converted to Christianity, the pagan holiday of Samhain was morphed into All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. The night before the sequence of celebrations, All ...