Irish emigrants brought Easter customs including lamb dinners, Hot Cross Buns and egg traditions to countries around the ...

News of ancient Celtic symbols popping up in Spain might come as a surprise to those who think of the culture as being restricted to territories contiguous with Britain. But in ancient times, Celtic ...

A new year once began with a lamb.Not on January 1, and not with fireworks. In parts of the ancient Near East, people marked ...

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 ...

There are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some trace their origin as far back as the 11th century. For centuries, linguists and academics have kept careful track of ...

MUSKEGON, MI -- A sea of green, orange and tartan flooded downtown Muskegon this week. The Michigan Irish Music Festival returned to West Michigan on Saturday, Sept. 13, at Heritage Landing in ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A "very rare" Celtic helmet that could be up to about 2,400 years old has been unearthed at an archaeological site in ...

Authorial relish and exuberance are apparent on every page of this short story collection, with contributions from Naoise ...