“Wild Mountain Thyme” is an Irish folk song with strong roots in Scottish traditions. The Belfast-based folk musician Francis McPeake took an old Scottish song from the early 19th century ...

Women's Christmas was also associated with the Irish death divination customs that were practised at Halloween. One tradition is that a "cake" of mud or clay was made and candles named for the ...

Ireland is home to some of the most unusual traditions and superstitions in ... involved banging on doors and walls of the house with Christmas bread to chase the bad luck out of the house and ...

The Christmas scene in our house of warm fires ... No girls were part of that tradition. Love Irish history? Share your favorite stories with other history buffs in the IrishCentral History ...

A visit to the local church to see the crib on Christmas Day, Christmas Eve boxes to open early and the annual reading of the Night before Christmas poem before bedtime on 24 December.

The mum-of-three completed her sacred Christmas tradition on Tuesday, one that she feels she is the 'only person left in Ireland' doing. Lucy sends out 25 Christmas cards every year and this year ...

Jossy moved from the north of India to Northern Ireland, and has been based in Londonderry since 2009. She still follows the same Christmas traditions as her parents in Kerala, southern India ...

“Happy Women’s Christmas!” Irish ladies greet each other on January 6, marking the long-held tradition of Nollaig na mBan, called ‘Women’s Christmas’ or ‘Little Christmas’ in Englis ...