Island potter and cofounder of the Island Folk Pottery and Sculpture Trail (Fairy Trail) Bill O’Callaghan originally hails from Ireland. “I grew up in Cork. We were a big family, 11 kids. It rained — ...

Banshee is a new collection of stories by contemporary women authors that retell Ireland’s myths and legends through a ...

Soon it will be Saint Patrick’s Day, although Lowcountry celebrations have already been underway. Instead of the usual St. Paddy’s Day quiz, this week we’re taking a deep dive into the legends of ...

“I have worked in Ireland before and loved it, I worked in Dublin,” Fanning shared. “So going back was something I was very excited about and I loved that this story was incorporating that folklore ...

A new phone service will allow members of the public to listen to recordings of songs and stories from Irish folklore performed by contemporary Irish artists throughout the month of November. Dial A ...

Mainstream animation as we know it has always connected deeply to folklore and fairy tales. Disney’s early shorts and feature films adapted stories by the Brothers Grimm. Studio Ghibli drew ...

A new study has uncovered evidence to suggest that the word "leprechaun" may have actually originated in Italy. In 2019, researchers from Queen's University Belfast and Cambridge University in England ...